{"id":701068,"date":"2026-06-13T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701068\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:34:10","slug":"mase-wasnt-a-fan-president-trumps-nba-finals-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701068\/","title":{"rendered":"Mase Wasn&#8217;t a Fan President Trump&#8217;s NBA Finals Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDuring a recent episode of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sports\" data-tag=\"sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports<\/a> talk YouTube show It Is What It Is, <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mase\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mase<\/a> hoped that President <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> doesn\u2019t decide to attend another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/nba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba\" data-tag=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> Finals game at Madison Square Garden after he and the crew were discussing how there were more celebrities than usual sitting courtside during Game 3 earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img 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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mase\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img 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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m just so glad that they didn\u2019t have Trump come back,\u201d he said in reference to the hoopla that the president\u2019s attendance caused. \u201cIt just messed the vibe up, and having the arena back like it was gonna be before he came was really, really exciting to see, and I hope they keep it that way moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCo-host Treasure \u201cStat Baby\u201d Wilson then brought up that Taylor Swift attended Game 4 at MSG and that\u2019s where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/camron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam\u2019ron<\/a> went on a quick public service about bandwagon fans. \u201cNothing turns me off [more] than a follower. I can\u2019t stand it. I hate it. I really, really hate it,\u201d he ranted before saying he blocked multiple people for calling him about the Knicks for the first time after they erased the largest deficit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/nba-finals\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba-finals\" data-tag=\"nba-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Finals<\/a> history on Wednesday (June 10). \u201c<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, what are you doing there? You\u2019re not even from New York, and you\u2019re jumping around. I hate people like that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdding, \u201cI smile and give you a handshake and still be your friend, but in the back of my brain, I\u2019m like, \u2018I have no respect for you. You\u2019re a follower and me and you, we\u2019re not the same kind. So, be careful trying to act like, \u2018Hey, Cam, you seen the Knicks?\u2019 Yeah. Congrats to the real Knicks fans. You\u2019re a follower. You\u2019re a Swifty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHowever, the pop singer has actually been a fan of the team <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/11\/13\/taylor-swifts-knicks-fandom-started-with-amare-friendship\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/11\/13\/taylor-swifts-knicks-fandom-started-with-amare-friendship\/\" target=\"_blank\">for about 20 years<\/a> and Knicks radio analyst Monica McNutt was reminded of that when she <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/knicks-analyst-questions-taylor-swift-fandom-nba-finals-game-4-1236270371\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/knicks-analyst-questions-taylor-swift-fandom-nba-finals-game-4-1236270371\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally got herself in trouble<\/a> with the Swifties after a hot mic caught her questioning Swift\u2019s fandom as well. \u201cShe\u2019s not a Knicks fan. Get out of here, girl,\u201d she scoffed as her co-host Tyler Murray was trying to get a picture of Taylor Swift sitting courtside. To Monica\u2019s credit, she took to social media and admitted that she was wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYou can watch the full episode below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent episode of his sports talk YouTube show It Is What It Is, Mase hoped that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,5489,111,99],"class_list":["post-701068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-politics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701068","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=701068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}