Clear eyes, cooked Timbs, can’t lose.
ByEileen Cartter
May 14, 2025
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Before the New York Knicks face off again against the Boston Celtics tonight, the surest bet you could place in advance would be that Timothée Chalamet will be there: sitting courtside, hyping up his beloved team, and wearing some sort of charmingly slovenly ensemble.
Timothée Chalamet and Spike Lee, devoted Knicks fans, wore their spirit on their sleeves while celebrating the team's win on Monday.Elsa/Getty Images
The actor and native Manhattanite, whose childhood apartment in Hell’s Kitchen was approximately a 15-minute walk from Madison Square Garden, has gone out of his way to attend the team’s playoff games this season, carving out time in his busy Hollywood schedule to jet between arenas. This love is serious: He went to Detroit to cheer on the Knicks. He skipped the Met Gala to watch the Knicks game on an iPad. Hell, he’s even got his “born-and-raised LA baddie” girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, cheering on his home team!
And for as long as Timmy’s been famous enough to sit (and be photographed) amongst the VIPs in the Garden’s Celebrity Row, he’s been steadily building up his blue-and-orange wardrobe. Though the actor’s been bing-bonging since long before he was rubbing elbows with fellow Knicks fanatics like Ben Stiller and Spike Lee, he only recently started really dressing like a high-profile superfan. Luckily for us, the internet has photo documentation of every Knicks game Chalamet has attended in the last seven-ish years. Let’s review, shall we?
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May 12, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics
While Timmy’s girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, and her sister, Kendall, both opted for the standard courtside-baddie uniform (tank top, leather pants, strappy sandals), Chalamet followed a failsafe mantra of the diehead New York sports fan: Clear eyes, cooked Timbs, can’t lose. That, and he managed to dig up a pretty sick vintage Knicks tee from the ’95 playoffs.
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May 10, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics
🎶 Ricks out for the Knicks, Ricks out for the Knicks! 🎶
(The vintage Starter jacket is cool, too.)
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April 24, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Detroit Pistons
Per my more sports-minded GQ colleagues, these performance-style hoodies seem to be a bit divisive. But given that Chalamet went all the way to chilly Detroit to see the Knicks’ round-one matchup against the Pistons, it made sense that he’d bundle up a bit.
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April 21, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Detroit Pistons
This is a classic Timmy Tim post-swag mash-up of niche streetwear and wonky luxury wares: a Juun.J hoodie, camo-print jeans, Dior loafers, and a Knicks snapback. And lest we forget, that mustache.
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March 6, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers
Who else is pairing a Raf Simons fall 1997 jacket with some track pants and Uggs? Only Timmy Tim, that’s who!
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January 27, 2025 — New York Knicks vs. Memphis Grizzlies
When Chalamet was in the depths of dressing for his bonkers A Complete Unknown press tour—which also happened to coincide with this Knicks-Grizzlies game at MSG—he leaned heavily into 2000s nostalgia. This outfit has several aughts-era relics at play including an Alexander McQueen skull scarf (a grail amongst Kitson-patronizing socialites of yore), heavily whiskered True Religion jeans, and a punchy Knicks leather bomber jacket.
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December 18, 2023 — New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers
A Yankees hat at a Knicks game: What would Mayor Eric Adams have to say about this?
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December 16, 2023 — New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Clippers
A self-referential moment from Timmy here: the bookshelf-printed sweater is from the Japanese label Sacai’s fall 2023 collection, which pulled imagery from Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar, in which Chalamet appeared as the teenage son of Matthew McConaughey’s Cooper. (To reference another Nolan movie, Inception, there’s diegetic levels to this!)
Also featuring what appears to be a fresh-from-the-box pair of Nike Field General sneakers.
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March 21, 2021 — New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers
A kooky Burberry hoodie, yes, but also an Ivy Park face mask! Does the Beyhive know about this?
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January 24, 2020 — New York Knicks vs. Toronto Raptors
Aside from the Isabel Marant sneakers, the real star of this outfit—a Scarface parody tee featuring Stewie from Family Guy—was hiding beneath Timmy’s Prada puffer.
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February 5, 2019 — New York Knicks vs. Detroit Pistons
Fun fact: Timothée Chalamet’s mom, Nicole Flender, danced at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet as a child and later appeared on Broadway in A Chorus Line—hence, perhaps, this hat. Or, as British Vogue put it at the time, the cap proved that the then-rising star was also “the pin-up for every aspiring actress” and “a heartbreaker for the modern era.”
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March 15, 2018 — New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers
This game took place a little over a week after Chalamet’s first Oscars ceremony, when he was nominated for his breakthrough performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. He was well on his way to becoming a big star at this point, which you can tell because of one extremely Hollywood accessory: a trucker hat from Brentwood Country Mart, LA’s finest purveyor of upmarket goods.
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December 21, 2017 — New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics
Way back in 2017, not long after Call Me By Your Name hit select theaters, Chalamet watched the Knicks courtside with two former classmates, Ansel Elgort and Violetta Komyshan, from Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, a.k.a. the school from Fame. At the time, Timmy had most recently been a student at NYU, and on this night, in a leather jacket, skinny jeans, and Dr. Martens, he really looked the part.
Eileen Cartter is a staff writer at GQ, where she covers style and trends, fame and celebrity, and other cultural phenomena. Previously, she was the social & culture editor at Garage magazine, and her writing has also appeared in publications like Dazed, Paper, i-D, and Departures. She is based in ... Read more