Tag: Spike Lee

Aaron Rodgers soaked in the love as he attended Rangers and Knicks playoff games

New Jets QB Aaron Rodgers is soaking in the love in New York.

“New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers” is still a very weird phrase to type out, but he’s already making his home in the Big Apple.

Over the weekend, Rodgers attended playoff games for the New York Rangers and New York Knicks like a proper New Yorker should.

At the Rangers game on Saturday, he was in the stands and sang the Rangers goal song with former Packers teammate Allen Lazard, who signed with the Jets in March.

New York running back Breece Hall joined his new teammates for the game.

The three must’ve brought the Rangers some luck as they blanked the New Jersey Devils 5-2 in the playoff game to tie the series 3-3.

At Sunday’s Knicks game against the Miami Heat, Rodgers sat courtside and got a big welcome from the crowd.

He even met filmmaker and avid Knicks fan Spike Lee at the game, which is an awesome right of passage for any New York sports star.

While Rodgers has yet to take a snap for the Jets, he’s already the toast of the town in New York. As long as he wins games, he’ll probably stay that way.

Spike Lee wore an absolutely gigantic ‘Mars’ chain to the NBA Finals, and here’s why

It’s gotta be the shoes!

Film director Spike Lee is one of the world’s most famous basketball fans, and he proved why with his choice of attire for the NBA Finals.

Lee, a multi-time Academy Award and Emmy Award winner who was also nominated for a Grammy, was spotted courtside an hour before the Warriors and Celtics tipped off for the first game of the championship series.

It was hard to miss Lee, who was wearing a beautiful white suit, a white hat, and large white glasses. However, without a doubt, the most iconic part of his look was his chain.

Here is how it all looked for Lee on ESPN’s pre-game broadcast:

The chain, which is large enough that you can probably see it from Mars, is a tribute to Lee’s first film, She’s Gotta Have It (1986).

In the iconic Brooklyn movie, which was his directorial debut, Lee chose to cast himself in the supporting role of Mars Blackmon, who is obsessed with basketball.

The original movie was so successful that Lee, as Blackmon, went on to regularly co-star in commercials alongside Michael Jordan. You can watch those (most remembered for the line “it’s gotta be the shoes!”) commercials, which led to a release of the Jordan Mars 270 sneakers, here.

As an aside: Decades later, in the Netflix rendition of the show, Blackmon was portrayed by Anthony Ramos (who previously starred alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in the original cast of Hamilton on Broadway).

So, in case you weren’t sure why you saw a picture of Lee repping a planet around his neck, now you have an answer!

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While on the topic of New York Knicks …

While on the topic of New York Knicks fans, Young was asked about Spike Lee. Young said, “To be honest, Spike is like the perfect type of fan you want. You’re talking about fans going to far, Spike is the total opposite. He’s just going to cheer, talk trash but he’s going to talk trash the right way. He’s not going to go too far or say nothing crazy to the players or nothing like that.” Young continued, “He’s the perfect type of fan you want cheering your team on and I give a lot of respect to Spike because he shows love whenever the game is over with. Just like the other teams usually do, and it’s respect all around. So he’s definitely the perfect type of fan you want.”

The National Basketball Association is …

The National Basketball Association is offering virtual courtside seats on Meta’s $299 Oculus Quest 2 devices. The headsets were one of the most popular Christmas gifts in 2021, showing that people seem to be more willing than ever to give virtual reality a try. And businesses are trying to keep your eyeballs on their content by creating VR versions of their apps and games. The NBA experience is free and available on Meta’s Horizon Venues platform, which is a free software download for the Oculus headset. People appear as digital avatars, sort of like cartoon versions of their real selves, and watch an NBA game from a courtside perspective. It’s not Jack Nicholson’s Los Angeles Lakers seat at Crypto.com Arena or Spike Lee’s seat at Madison Square Garden, but it almost replicates the real thing.

Spike Lee worked so hilariously hard to get the perfect angle for Steph Curry photo

Gotta get the shot!

It was a night at Madison Square Garden that everyone in attendance — and watching — will want to remember.

Steph Curry became the career leader in three-pointers made, surpassing Ray Allen (who was there to watch it happen in person). The NBA world went wild, and Twitter was ablaze with looks at the moment it happened, including a photobomb from Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson.

As Curry was doing his postgame interview, director and New York Knicks superfan Spike Lee worked so hard on getting the perfect shot of Curry with his phone — he was on his knees, sitting to get the lights of MSG in there … it was a lot!

This appears to be the result:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXfXEVfL4Fh/

Worth all that work? To remember a record-breaking night? Sure.

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Anthony Davis, LeBron taunted Spike Lee after win over Knicks

Some trash talk aimed at the Knicks superfan.

To me, taunting Spike Lee is a sign that the New York Knicks are truly back to being a threat.

Because back in the day, Reggie Miller famously went back and forth with the legendary director and super-fan. It feels like while the Knicks were terrible, it wasn’t a thing to needle Lee.

So on Tuesday night, after the Los Angeles Lakers emerged with a close 101-99 overtime victory against the Knicks, there was Anthony Davis and LeBron James appearing to talk trash to Lee. What was said? No idea. But you can see James waving and Davis putting a finger to his ear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpso_znd198

Ah, yes. This is familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4Tejb14zI

Good times.

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