{"id":2456394,"date":"2026-06-12T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2456394"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:34:04","slug":"monica-mcnutt-reacts-to-taylor-swift-racism-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/monica-mcnutt-reacts-to-taylor-swift-racism-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica McNutt Reacts to Taylor Swift Racism Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">New York Knicks radio analyst <strong>Monica McNutt<\/strong> defended herself from claims of racism after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/sports\/news\/knicks-analyst-shades-taylor-swift-at-game-4-of-nba-finals\/\">her hot mic criticism of <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> went viral<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEven if you call out race being super peace of mind, I\u2019m just making an observation of what is happening,\u201d McNutt, 36, said on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmCeFOZ6JAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Friday, June 12, broadcast<\/a> of <i>The Breakfast Club<\/i> morning show. \u201cQuickly people were like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re racist.\u2019 No, I\u2019m kind of stating a fact. But we have had to live in the fact and it makes everybody else uncomfortable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McNutt was caught on a hot mic before Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday, June 10, calling out Swift, 36, as she was entering Madison Square Garden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe\u2019s not a Knicks fan. Get out of here, girl,\u201d McNutt said, which spread like wildfire on social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI didn\u2019t even remember saying it, y\u2019all,\u201d McNutt said on Friday. \u201cIt was just like, \u2018Oh girl, get out of here. I ain\u2019t seen you all year.\u2019 But words are powerful, the way the story gets told. All of these things come into play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Breakfast Club<\/i> cohost <strong>Loren LoRosa<\/strong> argued that while critics of McNutt \u201caren\u2019t pointing\u201d to race being a factor, it\u2019s \u201cthere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s implied,\u201d McNutt agreed. \u201cBecause if I was in a different body, it would be nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rest of<i> The Breakfast Club<\/i> crew had McNutt\u2019s back, with cohost <strong>Jess Hilarious<\/strong> saying, \u201cIf it was a Black woman, it wouldn\u2019t have even been a story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere was no way for them to make that Taylor Swift moment a Black or white thing,\u201d host <strong>Charlamagne Tha God<\/strong> added. \u201cI heard a person who is a basketball analyst \u2014 and just a basketball fan \u2014 [saying], \u2018Girl, when did she become a Knicks fan? Girl, get out of here.\u2019 It\u2019s just regular sports conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/sports\/news\/knicks-analyst-breaks-silence-after-criticizing-taylor-swift\/\">McNutt broke her silence<\/a> about the controversy during an interview with TMZ Sports on Thursday, June 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<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 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI misspoke. I did not know,\u201d McNutt said, referencing Swift\u2019s years-long fandom of the Knicks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McNutt, who works for ESPN and covers the Knicks for the MSG Network, explained that she\u2019s close with the regular celebrities who attend games, which led to her confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI literally just did a piece on Celebrity Row,\u201d McNutt told TMZ. \u201cI\u2019ve been with this organization for five years. I know these folks. <strong>Ben Stiller<\/strong> [and] his wife, <strong>Christine<\/strong> [<strong>Taylor<\/strong>], <strong>Spike Lee<\/strong>, <strong>Fat Joe<\/strong>. I had not seen her here this year or last year.\u201d<\/span><\/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>New York Knicks radio analyst Monica McNutt defended herself from claims of racism after her hot mic criticism of Taylor Swift went viral.\u00a0 \u201cEven if you call out race being super peace of mind, I\u2019m just making an observation of what is happening,\u201d McNutt, 36, said on the Friday, June 12, broadcast of The Breakfast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"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":[24003,233436,21741,21848],"class_list":["post-2456394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-scandals","tag-entertainment","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456394","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=2456394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456395,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456394\/revisions\/2456395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}