Nadler goes out of his way to rip Trump's Knicks game appearance during Sports Broadcasting Act hearing

President Donald Trump took immoderate vigor during Wednesday's introspection of the Sports Broadcasting Act.

Representatives ripped the National Football League for broadcasting games exclusively to streaming services, costing immoderate fans astir $1,000 to ticker their favourite teams.

However, 1 Democratic rep felt it indispensable to instrumentality an unrelated swipe astatine Trump aft helium attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

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President Donald Trump watches the commencement of Game 3 of the NBA Finals betwixt the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump became the archetypal sitting president to be the NBA Finals erstwhile helium watched his hometown New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs astatine Madison Square Garden. The Knicks won the archetypal 2 games of the bid successful San Antonio earlier dropping Monday's location game.

In a proceeding that was mostly astir the NFL having fans wage absurd prices to ticker games connected streaming sites, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., seemed to blasted Trump for the Knicks' loss.

"We cannot sermon thing related to sports contiguous without taking enactment of the sports communicative happening successful this state contiguous – the New York Knicks' thrust for an NBA championship. Tonight is Game 4, and arsenic agelong arsenic Donald Trump stays acold distant from Madison Square Garden, the Knicks should bash fine. Let's spell Knicks," Nadler said.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee proceeding successful Washington, D.C., connected June 9, 2026. (Elizabeth Frantz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Trump received a massive reaction from the Madison Square Garden assemblage connected Monday, mostly successful opposition with however helium was received successful Florida for the assemblage shot nationalist championship.

Trump’s accomplishment successful New York progressive enhanced information passim the city. A information obstruction went up astir MSG. The Secret Service and different instrumentality enforcement officials performed their duties to the highest standard, which meant longer lines and hold times to get into the arena.

Watch parties successful the country were canceled, with the NYPD claiming it was due to the fact that of information for Trump’s visit. They volition instrumentality for Game 4 connected Wednesday.

President Donald Trump watches earlier Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals betwixt the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected June 8, 2026. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

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Trump has attended galore sporting events since opening his 2nd term, including the Super Bowl successful New Orleans 2 seasons ago, the Daytona 500, the assemblage shot nationalist championship, the men's tennis U.S. Open and the Ryder Cup, among others.

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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