The New York Knicks just made their first NBA Finals since 1999. As the team wades through yet another thrillingly unchartered NBA postseason, the surest bet you could place in advance of any game is that native Manhattanite Timothée Chalamet will be sitting courtside, hyping up his beloved team, and wearing a charmingly slovenly ensemble.
“I don’t cherish anything more in my new life than my Garden access,” Chalamet said on a recent episode of Carmelo Anthony’s 7PM in Brooklyn podcast. The actor, whose childhood apartment in Hell’s Kitchen was approximately a 15-minute walk from Madison Square Garden, grew up scrounging for cheap tickets to games. Now, he’s a bonafide Celebrity Row staple. Over the past two years, he’s gone out of his way to attend the team’s playoff games, carving out time in his busy Hollywood schedule to jet between various metropolises and small-market arenas. This love is serious: He once skipped the Met Gala to watch a game on an iPad, and he’s even got his “born-and-raised LA baddie” girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, jetting all over the country to cheer on his home team.
And for as long as Timmy’s been famous enough to sit (and be photographed) amongst the VIPs in Celeb Row, he’s steadily built up his blue-and-orange wardrobe. The actor’s been bing-bonging since long before he was rubbing elbows with fellow Knicks fanatics like Ben Stiller and Spike Lee, but he only recently started dressing like a high-profile superfan: custom Chrome Hearts getups, deep-cut vintage team tees, and a seemingly endless stream of cooked Timberlands.
Luckily for us, the internet has photo documentation of every Knicks game Chalamet has attended in the last eight-ish years.
Let’s review, shall we?
