From celebrity row at Madison Square Garden to the feud between owner James Dolan and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over security at watch parties, Knicks fans have become a focal point of the 2026 NBA Finals. But they’re not all making the best impression with the franchise in the spotlight again, just one win away from winning its first championship since 1973.
The unfortunate behavior may now include an apparent egging attempt on the Spurs‘ best player.
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Another wave of arrests occurred during the celebrations that followed the Knicks’ thrilling comeback win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday, June 10, and video later emerged on social media of an object thrown at Spurs star Victor Wembanyama from the swarm of New York fans waiting outside the team’s hotel. The caption on the original video referred to the object as an egg.
This latest incident comes on the heels of videos that appeared to show a fan wearing a Spurs jersey being attacked after NBA Finals Game 3 in New York, and drew a strong reaction in the aftermath of the Knicks’ historic comeback.
“If you’re throwing eggs at Victor Wembanyama and, the other night, if you’re beating up on people, threatening, or doing anything to people wearing Spurs jerseys, just know that you are a disgrace,” ESPN’s Mike Greenberg said on “Get Up,” while also referring to these particular Knicks fans as “lunatics.”
“You’re not disgracing the city, you’re disgracing yourself and everyone that knows you, and that should go without saying,” Greenberg added.
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Wembanyama looked back briefly but otherwise did not appear to react when the object was thrown at him following Game 4 on Wednesday. Another angle of the incident makes it appear as if the object (likely an egg) hit a street sign near where Wembanyama was walking and liquid (yolk?) splashed near him.
He was then quickly ushered into the hotel by security without further incident.
There were fan gatherings across New York City as the Knicks completed the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history, but some again required law enforcement involvement.
According to the NYPD, across multiple locations around the city, 56 people were taken into custody, 15 were arrested, and 41 were released with criminal court summonses. Some of the charges included assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon (knife), reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, and trademark counterfeiting.
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The NYPD previously released surveillance photos related to the Game 3 incident and announced it was looking for a group of five men charged with robbery. They allegedly surrounded a man wearing a Spurs jersey walking back to his hotel around midnight in midtown Manhattan and “proceeded to punch and kick the victim about the body and forcibly removed the victim’s basketball jersey from his body.”
“Being a Knick fan doesn’t mean being disrespectful to Spurs fans in any way,” actor and celebrity Knicks fan Ben Stiller wrote on social media ahead of Game 4. “We get caught up during the games but we gotta show respect to our fellow humans.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Knicks fans blasted for Victor Wembanyama egging, NBA Finals conduct
