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‘I’ll go when I’m fully dilated!’ Emmy Rossum refused to go to into labour for this reason

‘I’ll go when I’m fully dilated!’ Emmy Rossum refused to go to into labour for this reason

Published by Sam Flores

Emmy Rossum refused to go to hospital when she went into labour until the New York Knicks had finished playing. The Shameless actress, who has daughter May, five, and a three-year-old son with husband Sam Esmail, has reflected on the first time she gave birth, and how she didn’t want to leave the house until she’d watched the end of the basketball. She told the Call Her Daddy podcast: “What was in the front of my psyche, was I was not going to go into labour until after the Knicks game. “I was labouring over a large kind of exercise ball in full labour, as I’m watching the Knicks game, and in this photo, my mom is next to me on the couch, being like, ‘I really think you should just like go get the epidural,’ and I was like, ‘Nope, I’m gonna watch this game, and I’ll go when I’m fully dilated.’ “ Emmy, 39, was initially “very much in denial” of the signs she had gone into labour. She explained: “I remember, I …

Jordyn Woods’s “Lucky Bag,” the Knicks’ Good-Luck Charm, Heads to The Guggenheim

Jordyn Woods’s “Lucky Bag,” the Knicks’ Good-Luck Charm, Heads to The Guggenheim

Published by Sam Flores

From June 24 to 28, the famous orange clutch will be displayed in a glass case at the New York institution. In a press release, Mariët Westermann, CEO of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, explained: “People have always found meaning in objects that embody profound cultural moments, and they often go to great lengths to see them. That is one reason museums exist. Like art, basketball at the stratospheric level of the Knicks thrives on discipline, creativity, and teamwork—and on bringing people together.” The statement perfectly sums up the unique journey of this object, which, in just a few weeks, has become a symbol of the city. Towns himself shared his opinion after Game 4 that the bag’s rightful place was in a museum, saying in an Instagram reel, “The bag did its thing tonight! We’ve got to put this in The Whitney or The Guggenheim.” “When I heard Karl-Anthony Towns say that maybe the lucky bag should come to The Guggenheim, I was thrilled,” Westermann said in the press release. Woods, in the Guggenheim’s …

Jalen Brunson’s Knicks Parade Rolex Is Fit for the MVP

Jalen Brunson’s Knicks Parade Rolex Is Fit for the MVP

Published by Jenni Sidey

Making his way down the Canyon of Heroes along lower Broadway this week, point guard Jalen Brunson held the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy aloft in a Rolex-clad arm as jubilant bystanders jockeyed for selfies and fist bumps. He had reason to be confident, of course: having scored 45 of the Knicks’ 94 points in Game 5 against the Spurs, he not only helped clinch the team’s victory in a difficult fourth quarter, but was also responsible for helping deliver heretofore unseen energy levels to the city. For a man who can afford any watch he damn well likes, a gold Day-Date is an interesting choice: despite its solid precious-metal construction, its relative flash almost registers as quaint when stacked up against the gem-set “rainbow” Daytonas and skeletonized, complicated luxury sports watches of today. It’s the type of timepiece that a Knick of the Sopranos era (as well as Tony himself) might strap on—but also, a model whose shelf life is seemingly, well, endless. Courtesy of Rolex; Getty Images The watch is a very fitting choice …

The Father-Son Story Behind Spike Lee’s Knicks Parade Jacket

The Father-Son Story Behind Spike Lee’s Knicks Parade Jacket

Published by Jenni Sidey

The final garment, which the brand turned out in a matter of days, is a white leather varsity jacket with a metal-studded collar, with Who Decides War’s signature gothic window motif—fittingly modified in blue and orange—on the sleeves. Bravado and D’Amore switched out the frontal Knicks logo to “Spike’s favorite,” which is a version from the late 1980s. They also added a poignant graphic on the back: the Twin Towers, which, for Spike and plenty of other New Yorkers, were long a symbol as synonymous with the Big Apple as the Knicks themselves. The story gets more personal from there. Like the Lees, Brooklyn-born Bravado also shares a father-son Knicks passion with his and D’Amore’s child, eight-year-old Judah. (D’Amore, however, grew up a Celtics fan in Boston.) When Bravado took Judah to his first Knicks game in 2024, “they exited in the second round of the playoffs, and Judah was so upset, because, you know, him being so young and optimistic, of course he wanted them to win,” the designer recalls. “And I remember saying …

John Turturro Walked Across Brooklyn Bridge for Knicks Parade

John Turturro Walked Across Brooklyn Bridge for Knicks Parade

Published by Daniella Wilson

John Turturro was on the subway from Brooklyn early Thursday morning heading to the Knicks parade like a million other giddy schlubs when he hit a snag: The subway on the Brooklyn side was, for security reasons, skipping all the way to 14th Street in Manhattan, miles from the parade. So Turturro did what his Knicks would do when faced with an obstacle — he found a way. The actor decided to get off the train and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, joining an impromptu group of determined fans. Along the way, he made a new friend (of course), a woman named Alma whom he helped get into the tightly controlled parade pen when they arrived. “I know how to walk to the Brooklyn Bridge, so I walked,” he said, Anunoby-esque in his demeanor. Of all the Knicks’ devoted celebrity fans this title run not named Spike Lee — Chalamet, Stiller, Hargitay, Morgan — Turturro may hold the claim on most ardent, and certainly the most longtime. He listened to the early-1970’s championships as a teenager …

All of the Stars Spotted

All of the Stars Spotted

Published by Daniella Wilson

Spike Lee, Timothée Chalamet, and other famous New Yorkers and Hollywood celebrities were in the Big Apple on Thursday as the city celebrated the New York Knicks with a ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan after the team defied odds with two historic comeback games in a streak that ended Saturday with the team winning its first NBA Finals in 53 years. The Knicks’ historic win was incredible television, not only because the team won the championship last week over the San Antonio Spurs in five games, but because some of Hollywood’s biggest stars were right there watching the action courtside in what became known as “celebrity row.” On Thursday, Lee, Chalamet and fellow Knicks megafan Mariska Hargitay were downtown to support their team after making it to watch the games at Madison Square Garden as a fervor overtook midtown Manhattan on game nights over the past two weeks, whether the teams were facing off at the city’s famed home arena or in San Antonio. The Thursday parade began at 10 a.m. near Battery Park and …

How the Knicks’ Bedazzled Nike NBA Champions T-Shirts Got Made

How the Knicks’ Bedazzled Nike NBA Champions T-Shirts Got Made

Published by Jenni Sidey

Nike’s championship tee design process began with looking at athlete and consumer insights. Interestingly, the brand said this research was “specifically tuned to the 14-17-year-old athlete as the muse.” The company has “spent years studying” this teenage demographic, finding that “they gravitate toward [the] new, modern, different,” and that their “fearless, edgy attitude is what’s driving the design language now.” For this New York Knicks design, Nike also cited the viral, old-school-style warm-up suits worn by the NBA All-Star team in February as a “first proof point” of this bolder, younger graphic approach. Of course, what’s new is often based on what is now old, hence Gen Z and Alpha’s embrace of the aforementioned Ed Hardy, as well its ongoing obsession with the LA luxe-biker-ready brand Chrome Hearts (echoes of which can also be seen in the Knicks tee). There is an aesthetic daringness, or at least flashiness, in the crystals especially—some social-media pundits have discussed the return of rhinestones in men’s streetwear of late. Jalen Brunson, mid-celebration. Jesse D. Garrabrant/Getty Images With a layout …

Ben Stiller Teams With A24 and HBO for New York Knicks Doc

Ben Stiller Teams With A24 and HBO for New York Knicks Doc

Published by Daniella Wilson

Ben Stiller, a longtime fan of the New York Knicks, has revealed he’s working on a multi-part documentary about the storied NBA team that just took home its first championship in 53 years. After teaming up with the NBA, A24 and HBO for the documentary, Stiller is set to direct the project, which will follow the team’s full arc from the 90s to the improbable, record-breaking run that saw the Knicks victorious once again this year. The actor and filmmaker shared more details about the doc on the podcast, The Roommates Show, hosted by Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, alongside co-host Matt “Matty Ice” Hillman. “Obviously I’ve been shooting some stuff on my phone, but it’s kind of gonna be about all eras of the Knicks. There’s a culmination here of something that has been going on for a long time, so it’s super exciting,” Stiller said. “And it’s great to have had all this access to your team, and we’re gonna probably be shooting a little bit more during next season.” The …

Why Were There So Many Teal Sneakers on the Court During Game 5?

Why Were There So Many Teal Sneakers on the Court During Game 5?

Published by Jenni Sidey

But blue, of course, wasn’t the only color of the game. While Hart wore the aqua Brunson Kobe 6s for the first half of the game (a nice gesture of solidarity with a guy he’s shared countless monumental basketball moments with since their days at Villanova) he swapped them out for an orange pair of Kobe 6s after halftime: specifically, the Nike Kobe 6 “Total Orange,” an all-orange colorway that dropped last year to commemorate WNBA All-Star Weekend. Next to the teal PE, the combo made for some fortuitous sneaker synergy: a show of blue and orange on the court as Hart helped the Knicks end a cursed half-century of ups and downs. Elsewhere on the conspicuously-bright-sneaker front, several other Knicks players showed out for the big night. Jordan Clarkson rolled up in the legendary Kobe 6 “Grinch” colorway, while Mikal Bridges laced up a pair of the “NY vs NY” Nike Ja 3s. And OG Anunoby, the ascendant face of Skechers, played in not one, not two, but three different colorways of the Skechers …

Vanity Fair’s Knicks Victory Cover Features These 2 Real-Life Brothers

Vanity Fair’s Knicks Victory Cover Features These 2 Real-Life Brothers

Published by Sam Flores

Like so many New Yorkers, Kevin and Kayvon, 38 and 29, had been hanging on every moment of the playoffs in a state of suspended disbelief. Sitting at home, Kevin said, “I was making sure every night I was locked in, speakers dialed up. It had to sound like MSG in here.” Kayvon was putting in overtime at his night job at a group home for adults with intellectual disabilities—he brought his own television and Amazon Fire TV Stick to the office. “Sometimes my clients watch the game with me,” he said. “Sometimes they know, once it’s game time, Okay, we’re gonna leave the staff alone for right now. I get them little snacks or something.” The victory is a weight off the shoulders of New Yorkers who never thought they would live to see the day. “It was a lot of jokes,” Kayvon said. “A lot of being quiet in certain moments when they talking about championships. It was a lot of bad moments, but you know how New York fans are. We’re loyal …