His shot hit the rim.
Philadelphia 76ers forward Kelly Oubre Jr. insulted star players sitting courtside on Madison Square Garden’s famous Celebrity Row by calling them fake fans. And his bold name is being countered.
“They’re going to give that $100,000 to celebrities.” [worth of] Free tickets for just being there and not paying attention to the game. That’s what they’re doing.” Oubre said this at a press conference on April 19th. It was held ahead of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, where the Knicks will face the 76ers in Game 4 on Sunday.
“He’s kind of ranting, but he’s wrong because these are real fans,” “The Sopranos” star Steve Schirripa told the Post.
“I don’t know who he’s talking about. I care about the people in the front row. Big Tracy Morgan fan. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, myself, Matthew Modine, John McEnroe. , Fat Joe, all the fans. Believe it or not, they probably know more about basketball than him.”
It may not have always been that way, but now “the fans in the front row are really the fans,” said the Bensonhurst native, who believes he has been to 300 games.
“I remember thinking back in the day, ‘What is he doing here?'” The Knicks start winning some games and get better, but not lately. added the actor.
Ben Stiller, another famous Knicks fan who grew up on the Upper West Side, disputed Oubre’s jab. Tweet: “Oh, I think I care more than you think I care, more than you think I care…Kelly who are you?”
“Great, Ben is a New Yorker through and through,” Matthew Modine told the Post from a Manhattan-set trailer for Netflix’s upcoming series.zero day” also starring Robert De Niro.
The “Oppenheimer” actor, who lives in Greenwich Village, estimates he has played in well over 500 games since moving to the Big Apple from his native Utah in 1979 when he was just 19 years old.
“Sometimes I go with a friend who may have a ticket, and sometimes I’m made to sit on the floor as a guest in the garden,” he explained.
Modine, 65, said he is just as passionate about the game even though unlike some A-listers he is not given a floor seat.
“I’m not special. I think some famous people feel slighted or insulted when they don’t have a foothold, but I don’t care. I’m really happy to be there and enjoy this experience.”
Mr. Schirripa, 66, has been a fan since he was eight years old, but was unable to attend games when he was young.
“My family didn’t have the money for that,” he said.
But when he was captain of Brooklyn College’s basketball team, he was scoring cheap ducats with a bloody nose.
“Back then, I would take her on dates and dates and it would be about $6.50 for a two-on-one,” said Schirripa, who is currently filming “Blue Bloods.”
“I was right at the top. One time I actually had my back against the wall.”
After landing the role on The Sopranos, he was “lucky enough to sit a lot closer.”
“I always wondered back then, ‘How am I going to get that seat?'” he recalled.
I never get tired of seeing his face on the screen at The Garden.
“For me, it’s still thrilling,” he said.
