{"id":418521,"date":"2026-01-20T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:37:08","slug":"ben-stiller-has-meltdown-during-knicks-blowout-loss-to-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418521\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller has meltdown during Knicks blowout loss to Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knicks celeb super fan Ben Stiller had a social media meltdown watching the Knicks drop their fourth straight game aon Monday in an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/sports\/knicks-booed-off-court-after-worst-loss-of-season-to-mavericks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ugly 114-97 defeat at the hands of the Mavericks<\/a> at Madison Square Garden<\/p>\n<p>Stiller, whose ride-or-die fandom has been on full display during the Knicks\u2019 recent playoff runs, seemed to speak for most Knicks fans during the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s going on,\u201d the \u201cZoolander\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenStiller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">star wrote in a post on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He followed it up by posting, \u201cf\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u201d a short while later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a team issue not a player issue,\u201d Stiller continued in a third post during the Knicks game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker tried to remain in good spirits with his last post on the game writing, \u201cTrying to stay positive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.42222222;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38228467\" width=\"839\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/comedian-ben-stiller-reacts-celebrity-119125404.jpg\" alt=\"Comedian Ben Stiller reacts on celebrity row during the first half when the New York Knicks played the Phoenix Suns Saturday, January 17, 2026 at Madison Square Garden.\" class=\"wp-image-38228467\"  \/>Comedian Ben Stiller reacts on celebrity row during the first half when the New York Knicks played the Phoenix Suns Saturday, January 17, 2026 at Madison Square Garden. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Knicks fans likely know Stiller\u2019s pain after the team dropped its fourth consecutive game and suffered its ninth loss in its last 11 games since New Year\u2019s Eve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Monday loss was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/sports\/everyone-on-the-knicks-is-to-blame-for-this-embarrassing-rock-bottom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by far the team\u2019s worst of the season <\/a>as the Knicks were booed off the court at halftime down by 28 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:2.1954023;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38228488\" width=\"573\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-19-195148.png\" alt=\"Ben Stiller's thread of tweets on X during the Knicks-Mavericks game on Monday night.\" class=\"wp-image-38228488\"  \/>Ben Stiller\u2019s thread of tweets on X during the Knicks-Mavericks game on Monday night. X @BenStiller<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m okay with the boos,\u201d Knicks head coach Mike Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sny_knicks\/status\/2013422701264724300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told reporters after the game<\/a>. \u201cI mean, if we\u2019re playing crapy\u2026boo. If I was in the stands, I\u2019d probably boo too. You pay [hard-earned] money to come to the game, and this is a form of entertainment for the fans, they know good basketball and they know bad basketball. And we didn\u2019t play good basketball in the first half, so I\u2019m okay with the boos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown took his team to task in earlier comments during his postgame press conference and even dropped an F-bomb at one point, which he paused and apologized for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBottom line is we gotta lock in and do our job for 48 minutes. There was nothing to be said at halftime except do your job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks celeb super fan Ben Stiller had a social media meltdown watching the Knicks drop their fourth straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[15819,355,361,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-418521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ben-stiller","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york-knicks","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}