{"id":357,"date":"2026-06-09T04:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:42:35","slug":"trump-booed-before-knicks-lose-to-spurs-at-madison-square-garden-in-nba-finals-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Trump booed before Knicks lose to Spurs at Madison Square Garden in NBA Finals Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump was loudly booed at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Monday night before the start of Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the home team Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=355\">Pentagon expands list of China military-linked firms to include Alibaba, Baidu in fresh blow to diplomatic thaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, or not, the Knicks lost their first game of the Finals, 115-111. <\/p>\n<p>The loss also broke the Knicks&#8217; streak of 13 straight playoff game wins, the second-longest in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>The thunderous boos began when Trump was shown on the Jumbotron with Knicks owner James Dolan in Dolan&#8217;s suite above the court during the playing of the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>The jeers turned to cheers when the Jumbotron&#8217;s focus turned to Knicks star Jalen Brunson, who was shown standing on the court. <\/p>\n<p>The Knicks, who have not won an NBA title since 1973, entered the game with a 2-0 lead in the series over the Spurs, having won both in San Antonio. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday night at the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s presence at the game caused waits of two hours or more for ticket-holding fans to enter the famed arena in Midtown Manhattan after security screening. <\/p>\n<p>He was the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s motorcade passed signs that read &#8220;Nobody wants you here&#8221; and &#8220;Trump must go,&#8221; as it moved from lower Manhattan up the FDR Drive and over to the Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Two other signs read, &#8220;Impeach. Convict. Remove.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the motorcade pulled up to the Garden, people standing along the street booed it, while others waved American flags.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Dell courted Trump early. His company has reaped rewards<\/li>\n<li>Trump DOJ \u2018lawfare\u2019 fund temporarily blocked by judge as suit proceeds<\/li>\n<li>Bondi defends handling of Epstein files to House panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With Trump in the suite were his granddaughter Kai Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and his valet and former fellow criminal case co-defendant Walt Nauta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was sitting courtside.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the game was New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and celebrities including film director and Knicks superfans Spike Lee and Ben Stiller, actor Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, and &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; co-stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni.<\/p>\n<p>So was former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, into whose lap Knicks guard Jose Alvardo fell while scrambling for a loose ball at the beginning of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=352\">USDA Secretary Rollins calls Texas ag chief \u2018unserious\u2019 amid screwworm threat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A native of Queens who first gained fame as a brash Manhattan real estate developer, Trump is now deeply unpopular in heavily Democratic New York City.<\/p>\n<p>In the , the Republican Trump received fewer than 839,000 votes in the city, compared to more than 1.9 million votes for the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the then-vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s news that Trump planned to attend Game 3 was met with derision from some Knicks fans, who worried that his presence would throw the team off its rhythm in what has been the second-longest unbeaten playoff game streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>That unhappiness grew when game watch parties in the area around MSG would be cancelled because of Trump&#8217;s presence, and the New York Police Department set up a broad security perimeter in the surrounding blocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why does Donald Trump always have to ruin a good thing?&#8221; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, said on CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Knicks haven&#8217;t been in the NBA Finals for 27 years, the city is trying to celebrate this, we&#8217;ve embraced this team, and this guy has to inject himself,&#8221; Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>But NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking to ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Inside The NBA&#8221; before the game, said Trump is &#8220;welcome to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that what makes sports so special, especially when there&#8217;s so much [that] divides people, is it&#8217;s something that we have in common,&#8221; Silver said, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we should look for those things that we have in common and build off that,&#8221; the commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=350\">Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt locked in tight race to make runoff for Los Angeles mayor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver visited Dolan&#8217;s suite during the game and was seen speaking with Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s decision to attend Game 3 of the NBA Final was controversial for Knicks fans, some of whom feared he would jinx what has been an epic playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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