{"id":703718,"date":"2026-06-14T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:58:10","slug":"jalen-brunsons-message-for-taylor-swift-fans-after-monica-mcnutt-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703718\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson’s message for Taylor Swift fans after Monica McNutt drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was ever a time to challenge the Swifties.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson, who led the Knicks to the franchise\u2019s first championship in 53 years on Saturday night<\/a>, took a moment to defend Monica McNutt against Taylor Swift\u2019s fans after the Knicks radio voice drew their ire during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou better be good to her,\u201d Brunson said after joyously bumping McNutt. \u201cI just want to say something to the Swifties: She\u2019s a really good one, cut her some slack. It\u2019s all good. I promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Knicks radiocast on Wednesday, which was airing on WatchESPN, McNutt was heard taking a shot at Swift<\/a> who was among the many celebrities at MSG for Game 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not a Knicks fan,\u201d said McNutt in an apparent hot mic moment. \u201cGet out of here, girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Swift has a home in New York City and has appeared at Knicks games through the years \u2014 even taking photographs with players \u2014 her fandom was called into question during this posteason after she went to Eastern Conference finals Game 3 with Cavaliers-loving fiancee Travis Kelce.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TaylorTaylor Swift celebrates the Knicks\u2019 Game 4 win of the NBA Finals. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kelce, and to a lesser extent Swift, cheered on Cleveland as they got bulldozed by the Knicks juggernaut, 121-108, on New York\u2019s way to a four-game sweep.<\/p>\n

Swift then showed up to Game 4 of the NBA Finals<\/a> with her friends, the Haim sisters, wearing blue and orange Knicks novelty shirts with the pop star\u2019s reading \u201cStevie Knicks.\u201d Swift went crazy during and after the Knicks\u2019 miraculous 29-point comeback that was the defining game of these NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

McNutt apologized to Swift<\/a> in a street interview with TMZ in between Games 4 and 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwifties, I appreciate your passion, I said what I said,\u201d McNutt said. \u201cHere\u2019s the deal, if I\u2019m wrong, I am wrong apparently because she\u2019s got an original Amar\u2019e Stoudemire [Knicks] jersey. I misspoke. I did not know. But here\u2019s the deal, context, I literally just did a piece on Celebrity Row. I\u2019ve been with his organization for five years. I know these folks \u2014 Ben Stiller, his wife Christine [Taylor], Spike Lee, Fat Joe. I had not seen her here this year or last year and we just saw her in Cleveland with her fianc\u00e9 [Travis Kelce for Game 3 of Eastern Conference finals].<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously Travis supports the Cavs. She didn\u2019t have any Knicks paraphernalia [on at the game], so I didn\u2019t know of her Knicks loyalty. But shoutout to T. Swift, we can be united in orange and blue, it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not know, I apologize if I\u2019m wrong and apparently i am wrong and that fine but I did not know, because come on now \u2014 every Knicks fan has been in the building this year. So it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, McNutt has Brunson publicly on her side. The newly minted NBA Finals MVP\u2019s moment of support could help calm Swift\u2019s rabid fans after he dropped 45 points in a performance for the ages in Game 5.<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s next trip to MSG will be for her wedding to Kelce slated to take place July Fourth weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was ever a time to challenge the Swifties. Jalen Brunson, who led the Knicks to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,36783,355,5489,13331,258292,361,99,1625,3015,4915],"class_list":["post-703718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703718","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=703718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}