This one hurts so dangerous.
John Mellencamp has taken Pat McAfee to process for his foul-mouthed rant on the Knicks’ celeb followers that attended Recreation 4 of the Jap Convention finals Tuesday night time in Indianapolis.
“The Knicks/Pacers games have been very entertaining for anyone who likes basketball or sports. I attended Game 4 in Indianapolis,” Mellencamp, the Corridor of Fame singer-songwriter and Indiana native, wrote on social media.
“‘Hoosier Hospitality’ …I used to be embarrassed when someone, underneath whose route I don’t know, referred to as out among the individuals who had made the journey from New York to help their group — and in flip, help our group. The viewers booed these individuals. I’d say that was not Hoosier Hospitality. One may solely say it’s poor, poor sportsmanship. I used to be not proud to be a Hoosier, and I’ve lived right here my total life.
“On behalf of most Hoosiers, I would like to apologize for our poor behavior. I’m sure the Pacers had nothing to do with this smackdown.”
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McAfee, the previous Colts punter and present WWE commentator whose eponymous ESPN present is filmed in Indianapolis, was given a microphone to talk to the gang in the course of the fourth quarter of the Pacers’ win on Tuesday and let the Knicks’ celeb followers have it.
“Indianapolis, Indiana, we’ve got some bigwigs from the big city in the building,” McAfee started.
“Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timothée Chalamet is here,” he continued, with followers booing after every identify. “Let’s send these sons of bitches back to New York with their ears ringing. Let’s turn this s–t up!”
McAfee addressed Mellencamp’s feedback Thursday on X, stating, “I am ‘somebody’.”
Stiller appeared stunned by McAfee’s feedback throughout an look on SNY’s “The Putback.”
“I did know that Timothée had been on his show. And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s your boy. That’s your guy.’ So when that happened, I was a little bit like, ‘Whoa.’ But the WWE aspect of it, I get it. It’s just not the way it happens in New York. He should come to the Garden for Game 5,” Stiller mentioned Wednesday.
“They’ll put him up on the screen and they’ll show him punting the ball and everybody will give him a nice cheer,” Stiller added. “That’s how we do it in New York. But I get it, it was fun. He was just trying to get the crowd riled up. It was a little bit out of the blue. It’s also like, are we really doing the narrative of ‘Hicks versus Knicks’? Like the bigwigs from New York? It just seems a little cartoonish. But then again, it goes with the WWE.”
The Pacers gained the sport, 130-121, to take a 3-1 collection lead heading into Thursday night time’s Recreation 5 at MSG.
The winner of the collection will face the Thunder within the 2025 NBA Finals beginning subsequent Thursday.
