{"id":699021,"date":"2026-06-12T04:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699021\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:19:13","slug":"mariska-hargitay-on-being-courtside-for-knicks-game-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699021\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariska Hargitay on Being Courtside for Knicks Game 4 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/mariska-hargitay\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mariska-hargitay\" data-tag=\"mariska-hargitay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariska Hargitay<\/a> arrived at Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden after matinee and evening performances of \u201cEvery Brilliant Thing\u201d at the nearby Hudson Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAt first, she was spotted wearing a black shirt, but quickly changed into a customized orange and blue t-shirt emblazoned with \u201cStevie Knicks,\u201d an apparent gift from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, who wore a matching T-shirt along with Alana and Este Haim. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/taylor-swift-stevie-knicks-t-shirt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue<\/a>, Alana explained the shirts were her idea and Swift asked for extras to give to friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA regular at Knicks games, Hargitay was seen celebrating the team\u2019s turnaround win and hugging Swift as well as player Jalen Brunson. \u201cI want everyone to throw out every book on leadership they have and replace it with a photo of Jalen,\u201d Hargitay told me in an exclusive statement Thursday. \u201cWe have so much to learn from his brand of strength. And it\u2019s not just his own strength, his whole family\u2019s heart beats inside him when he plays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAnd I feel so lucky, so honored, so grateful, that in the future when people talk about that game, which they will forever and ever, I get to say \u2018I was there,\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how much I love and respect and cherish this Knicks team!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGame 5 of the NBA finals takes place on June 13 at 5:30 p.m. PT\/8:30 p.m. ET. It will broadcast live from the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FinalsG4_06102026_Spurs_Knicks_Butler_1475.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther bold-faced names at Game 4 included NYC staples like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/spike-lee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spike Lee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/larry-david\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry David<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/adam-sandler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Sandler<\/a>, Jerry Seinfeld,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/david-zaslav\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Zaslav<\/a>, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Kyle Jenner, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ben-stiller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stiller<\/a>, Chris Rock, John McEnroe and Tracy Morgan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1234848148\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Just-for-Variety-Logo-Lockup-Headshot.pngtiw=639\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"236\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariska Hargitay arrived at Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs on Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,36198,51129,361,4915],"class_list":["post-699021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-just-for-variety","tag-mariska-hargitay","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699021","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=699021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}