{"id":2457329,"date":"2026-06-13T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2457329"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:43:06","slug":"alana-haim-reacts-to-criticism-of-her-knicks-fandom-despite-being-born-and-raised-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alana-haim-reacts-to-criticism-of-her-knicks-fandom-despite-being-born-and-raised-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Alana Haim Reacts to Criticism of Her Knicks Fandom Despite Being Born and Raised in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alana Haim<\/strong> is a proud Valley girl \u2014 but that didn\u2019t stop her from creating custom gear to support the New York Knicks while sitting courtside at the 2026 NBA Finals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The musician and actress \u2014 who was born and raised in Los Angeles along with her sisters and bandmates, Danielle<\/strong> and Este Haim<\/strong> \u2014 partied with friend Taylor Swift<\/strong> at Game 4<\/a> of the finals on Wednesday, June 10, which didn\u2019t sit well with some critics who called them out for jumping on the Knicks bandwagon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from L.A., and I love the Lakers, but I also love the Knicks,\u201d Alana, 34, told Vogue<\/i><\/a> in a story published on Thursday, June 11. \u201cIt\u2019s just such an incredible season for them, and it was such an honor to root for them. That was, I think, maybe the greatest basketball game ever played, and I\u2019m hoping they bring home the championship, because they\u2019re such an incredible team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Knicks erased a 29-point deficit, the largest in NBA Finals history, and defeated the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4, putting the franchise one win away from their first NBA title since 1973.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Actor Hank Azaria Bashes Taylor Swift for Attending NBA Finals Game 4: \u2018I\u2019m Just Tired\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

While most sports fans view the cities of New York and Los Angeles as fierce, storied adversaries, Alana doesn\u2019t see it that way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can all be friends,\u201d she argued. \u201cThere\u2019s no animosity there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At Game 4, Alana, her sisters and Swift, 36, were decked out in custom, pop culture-inspired Knicks shirts that Alana made by hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alana\u2019s read \u201cKnickelback,\u201d while sisters Este and Danielle rocked \u201cKnickole Kidman\u201d and \u201cKnickolas Cage,\u201d respectively, and Swift\u2019s said \u201cStevie Knicks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Knicks WAGs Ali Brunson and Shannon Hart Defend Taylor Swift\u2019s Fandom During NBA Finals<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m getting anything out of this experience, it\u2019s that I really just want people to go out and make shirts,\u201d she told Vogue<\/i>. \u201cIt\u2019s such a fun hobby, and it\u2019s so easy to do. I\u2019m a Sagittarius, so there\u2019s a graveyard of arts and crafts that I\u2019ve done, from needlepoint to bedazzling. I really just want people to do more arts and crafts!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alana peeled back the layers of her creative process, revealing that the shirts were all the brainchild of Swift.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got a text from Taylor that was really the text that you want to get as an amateur screen printer. She said, \u2018I want to wear this shirt to the game, can you make it for me?\u2019\u201d Alana said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018I thought you would never ask, this is my dream.\u2019 Whenever I start out a session with a friend, I go, \u2018Let\u2019s talk about fonts, let\u2019s talk about sizing,\u2019 and [Swift] came up with Stevie Knicks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alana continued, \u201cWe were kind of going back and forth with these puns; we really just wanted to have fun, because we were so excited that we were going to the game, and I thought it would make people laugh, so we put them on shirts and all decided to wear them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Alana Haim is a proud Valley girl \u2014 but that didn\u2019t stop her from creating custom gear to support the New York Knicks while sitting courtside at the 2026 NBA Finals.\u00a0 The musician and actress \u2014 who was born and raised in Los Angeles along with her sisters and bandmates, Danielle and Este Haim \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2457330,"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":[25173],"tags":[312248,396322,22693,345485,351746,482318,23084,483034],"class_list":["post-2457329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-alana-haim","tag-este-haim","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-stevie-knicks","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-lakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Alana-Haim-Reacts-to-Criticism-of-Her-Knicks-Fandom-Despite.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457329","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=2457329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457331,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457329\/revisions\/2457331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}