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$50 Million Worth Hollywood Celebrity’s Contrasting Emotions to the New York Yankees and the Knicks Goes Viral Within Hours

Published 10/12/2022, 2:00 PM EDT

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Getting viral does not take much time nowadays. There are many sports teams based out of New York. A fan who follows basketball might also be following baseball or football. There is one such person from Hollywood. One of the biggest New York sports fans is the film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, Shelton Jackson, aka, Spike Lee. The $50 million worth director is also a fan of the New York Yankees.

Lee recently appeared to watch New York’s basketball and baseball team.  The knicks are not doing great this year. Preseason odds are taking shape, and according to those odds, Knicks is not even in the top 10 teams to make it to the NBA Finals for the 2022-23 season.

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Whereas Yankees, on the other hand, have reached the playoffs and have already won game one of the American League Division Series against the Cleveland Guardians. The New York Yankees started this season as if they were here to win, but the second half was not nearly as good. But somehow, mostly because of Aaron Judge, the team made it to the playoffs. And one of their biggest fans, of almost all the sports teams of New York, Spike Lee, went to support the Yankees and Knicks but ended up getting viral. 

How did Spike Lee at New York Yankees game go viral?

Lee’s reactions at the Knicks game and the Yankees game got recorded and went viral instantly. Watching the Yanks winning, Lee seemed rather cheerful in the Bronx. Whereas at the Knicks game, he sat still and emotionless. 

 

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Comparing his expressions on both the New York teams’ games, the director went viral. Since 1983, the man has produced more than 35 films, directed and acted in many while getting multiple awards as well. 

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Other fans also chimed in to make either make fun of him or to support him for being a true New Yorker.

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Darnell said, “NY sports will do that to you. It’s a love-hate relationship.” Whereas Marc thanked him for not being a Mets fan, “Thank God he’s not a Mets fan.” Meanwhile, Punkstar questioned him for not being a Mets fan, “Waaaaaaaaaaaaittt why he not a Mets fan they’re literally the knicks same colors.” 

Another user called him a bit of bad luck, “Bad luck someone tell him to stay home.” A Cleveland Guardians fan also chimed in, “Not for long 😏. Let’s gooooo @cleguardians.” Also, some users just straight up wrote about them disappointed in Spike Lee, “wesley_deg11 – Spike lee is 🗑,” “nj_viv – He’s a sports fraud”,“ajax842 – Spike is annoying”, “uskyhumper – Most annoying dude in NY sports”

While Ollie compared Lee’s emotions to watching a game with, “Watching the game with your girl vs watching it with the boys”

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Rakshita Madan

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Rakshita Madan is an MLB author at EssentiallySports. She is an engineering graduate and is currently pursuing her MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. Rakshita has experience in writing for more than four years now, with one of her writings even getting published in an anthology.
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Rupak Kumar Jha