{"id":81012,"date":"2026-11-06T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/bad-blood-knicks-defend-taylor-swift-after-players-accuse-her-of-being-fake-fan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:54:59","slug":"bad-blood-knicks-defend-taylor-swift-after-players-accuse-her-of-being-fake-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/bad-blood-knicks-defend-taylor-swift-after-players-accuse-her-of-being-fake-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad blood? Knicks defend Taylor Swift after players accuse her of being \u2018fake fan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Kolek calls singer\u2019s courtside appearances \u2018performative\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>McBride agrees as teammates question celebrity fandom<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knicks give statement saying Swift is longtime supporter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s love story with the New York Knicks caught an unexpected stray after two players from last season\u2019s NBA champions accused the singer of being a fair-weather fan.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks released a statement on Friday defending Swift after Tyler Kolek and Miles McBride questioned whether the pop superstar was a genuine supporter of the team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/06\/taylor-swift-knicks-tyler-kolek-miles-mcbride-fake-fan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolek calls singer\u2019s courtside appearances \u2018performative\u2019 McBride agrees as teammates question celebrity fandom Knicks give statement saying Swift is longtime supporter Taylor Swift\u2019s love story with the New York Knicks caught an unexpected stray after two players from last season\u2019s NBA champions accused the singer of being a fair-weather fan. The Knicks released a statement &#8230; <a title=\"Bad blood? Knicks defend Taylor Swift after players accuse her of being \u2018fake fan\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/bad-blood-knicks-defend-taylor-swift-after-players-accuse-her-of-being-fake-fan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bad blood? Knicks defend Taylor Swift after players accuse her of being \u2018fake fan\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}