Ben Stiller didn’t think Pat McAfee’s comments about him at the Knicks game were all that funny.
The actor-producer-director, who’s also a diehard Knicks fan, was sitting courtside at the fourth game of the Knicks-Pacers Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday, alongside Timothée Chalamet and Spike Lee. At the beginning of the game, The Pat McAfee Show host took the microphone to deliver a message to fellow Pacer fans, calling out some of the “bigwigs from the big city” visiting the Indianapolis, Indiana, arena.
“Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timothée Chalamet is here,” McAfee told the crowd, as they booed after each name, before he screamed: “Let’s send these sons of bitches back to New York with their ears bleeding.”
After the game, which saw the Pacers beat the Knicks 130-121, Stiller took to X (formerly Twitter) to reply to some videos of McAfee’s speech. “Yes. Weird. We were happy to be there and cheer our team and other than that Indy fans were awesome. #KNICKSIN7,” the Zoolander star wrote.
Stiller added in another reply, “It’s ok. He must be playing around – if it’s an actual point of view it seems a little anachronistic or cliche? Like we are ‘big city celebs’ and we shouldn’t be there in the heartland? Again, everyone we met was awesome and incredibly cool.”
When another X user told him, “Don’t be bitter,” the Severance exec producer clarified, “No bitterness at all Indy fans were amazing good win for you guys.”
Check out THR‘s list of all the celebs who attended the Knicks vs. Pacers playoff games.
