{"id":2456309,"date":"2026-06-12T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2456309"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:38:39","slug":"why-scooter-braun-sydney-sweeney-didnt-sit-courtside-at-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-scooter-braun-sydney-sweeney-didnt-sit-courtside-at-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Scooter Braun, Sydney Sweeney Didn&#8217;t Sit Courtside at MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/scooter-braun\/\"><strong>Scooter Braun<\/strong><\/a> attended game 4 of the NBA Finals alongside girlfriend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/sydney-sweeney\/\"><strong>Sydney Sweeney<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 but they didn\u2019t sit courtside with other A-listers.<\/p>\n<p>Braun, 44, revealed in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-scooter-brauns-feud-a-complete-timeline\/\">Instagram comment<\/a> on Thursday, June 11, that Sweeney, 28, \u201csurprised me with tickets\u201d to the game, which is why they didn\u2019t sit in celebrity row at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>celebrity.land<\/em> claimed that Sweeney was \u201cpushed off\u201d the court in a headline published on Thursday, which is what prompted Braun\u2019s explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The music mogul further explained that the seats Sweeney purchased were \u201cin the same section\u201d as Braun\u2019s dad and brother. Sweeney bought the tickets \u201cso I could share it with them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s keep things positive and get One more!\u201d Braun\u2019s comment concluded.. \u201cGreatest game of all time. Can\u2019t stop smiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4352434\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:72.285714285714%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/celebrity.land \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs during Game 4 in NYC on Wednesday, June 10. Eagle-eyed fans were quick to clock Braun and Sweeney seated a few rows behind <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>, who attended the game with two of the Haim sisters and <strong>Mariska Hargitay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s game was the closest Braun and Swift have been since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-scooter-brauns-feud-a-complete-timeline\/\">their years-long business dispute<\/a> started in 2019. At the time, Braun acquired Swift\u2019s masters from her former record label, Big Machine.<\/p>\n<p>Swift famously slammed Braun when discussing the situation on social media. In the years that followed, Swift started rerecording her backlog, creating Taylor\u2019s Version of several albums \u2014 including<em> Fearless<\/em>, <em>Red<\/em>, <em>Speak Now<\/em> and <em>1989<\/em> \u2014 before obtaining ownership of her original catalog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/scooter-braun-jokes-about-taylor-swifts-rhode-island-guest-list\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=74&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Scooter-Braun-Jokes-About-Taylor-Swifts-Rhode-Island-Guest-List-2.jpg?crop=0px%2C139px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Scooter Braun Jokes About Taylor Swifts Rhode Island Guest List\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/scooter-braun-jokes-about-taylor-swifts-rhode-island-guest-list\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Scooter Braun Jokes About Taylor Swift&#8217;s Rhode Island Guest List<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tScooter Braun is inserting himself in this narrative, one Taylor Swift likely never asked him to be a part of. Braun, 43, took to his Instagram Story on Tuesday, August 27, to reshare TMZ\u2019s upload of pics from Swift\u2019s trip to Rhode Island with her friends. \u201cHow was I not invited to this?!?\u201d Braun wrote, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swift announced in May 2025 that she had successfully bought back the rights to her music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,\u201d she shared at the time. \u201cA flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift continued, \u201cAll the times I was thiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that\u2019s all in the past now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer noted that she has been \u201cbursting into tears of joy\u201d after hearing the good news.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI really get to say these words,\u201d she added. \u201cAll of the music I\u2019ve ever made\u2026 now belongs\u2026 to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked for a response to Swift\u2019s business win, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/scooter-braun-wishes-best-for-taylor-swift-after-masters-deal\/\">Braun stayed diplomatic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish everybody the best,\u201d he told TMZ.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Braun attended game 4 of the NBA Finals alongside girlfriend Sydney Sweeney \u2014 but they didn\u2019t sit courtside with other A-listers. Braun, 44, revealed in an Instagram comment on Thursday, June 11, that Sweeney, 28, \u201csurprised me with tickets\u201d to the game, which is why they didn\u2019t sit in celebrity row at Madison Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2456310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21738],"class_list":["post-2456309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Why-Scooter-Braun-Sydney-Sweeney-Didnt-Sit-Courtside-at-MSG.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456311,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456309\/revisions\/2456311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}