Sydney Sweeney has seen a meteoric rise to fame in recent years, but that still wasn’t enough to get her on Celebrity Row for Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.
Instead, Sweeney and her boyfriend, record executive Scooter Braun, were planted about a handful of rows behind the front, which was, as expected, littered with celebrities on Wednesday night for the Knicks’ miraculous 107-106 victory over the Spurs.
Among those on Celebrity Row was pop superstar Taylor Swift, who, interestingly enough, has a long-running feud with Braun that goes back to at least 2019.
While Sweeney and Braun didn’t have the best seats in the house for Game 4 like Swift and other celebrities had, those seats certainly weren’t cheap.
According to TickPick, the get-in price on gameday before tip-off on Wednesday night was $3,502, and a seating chart shows Sweeney’s and Braun’s seats might have been north of $30,000.
Great seats for a historic night
New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby (8) makes a game-winning tip shot against San Antonio Spurs during game four of the NBA Finals (Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect).
Sweeney, Braun, Swift and the countless other celebrities in attendance watched a game for the record books.
It looked like all hope was lost for the New York Knicks in the first half after the San Antonio Spurs grabbed a huge lead.
In fact, it was so big that the Knicks had to break an NBA record just to overcome it.
And New York did just that by chipping away at the lead in the third quarter before finishing off their epic 29-point comeback in the fourth.
The previous record for the largest NBA Finals comeback in league history was 24 points.
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“You have to have a little luck in life. You’ve got to have a little luck in sports. But you can also make your luck too. So you’ve got to have some natural luck and some luck where you’re going to make your own luck, and that was probably the biggest message,” Knicks head coach Mike Brown told reporters after the 107-106 win.
OG Anunoby has been lauded as the hero for his game-winning tip-in, and rightly so.
“It’s unbelievable,” Brown said. “You know, the tip, how he had to control it and tip it in, and then like I said, you know, that has to be the most iconic shot in the history of New York basketball.”
But Karl-Anthony Towns deserves some love, too, after he tipped the in-bounds pass on the final play of the game that might’ve prevented Stephon Castle from scoring an easy game-winner as time expired.
With the historic victory behind them, the Knicks will turn their attention to Game 5, when they’ll look to close out the series and secure their first NBA title in 53 years.