Timothée Chalamet’s Old Knicks Tweet Resurfaces After NBA Championship Win And Fans Cannot Get Over It
The New York Knicks have finally given their fan base something to scream about, and one of the loudest voices in that celebration belongs to Hollywood’s reigning King of Hype, Timothée Chalamet. The actor has spent years cementing himself as one of the most visible courtside faces in Madison Square Garden, but his connection to the franchise apparently goes back far longer than most people realized.
That history came roaring back into focus this past week after New York pulled off a stunning underdog run through the playoffs. The New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals to bring an NBA championship back to New York for the first time since 1973, a drought that had become something of a running joke among long suffering fans, Chalamet included.
As the celebrations spilled out, an old social media post tied to Chalamet resurfaced and went viral all over again. A resurfaced tweet announcing Timothee Chalamet as the winner of a 2010 contest for Knicks tickets has gone viral amid the Knicks’ championship win. The clip showed a then teenage Chalamet, long before ‘Dune’ or ‘Wonka’ made him a household name, already deep in his Knicks obsession.
Back in 2010, former Knicks players Landry Fields and Andy Rautins posted a call on social media that mentioned they had Knicks tickets for the first fan to find them and answer their trivia questions, and a young Chalamet was that lucky fan. He found them at Grand Central and answered their questions correctly before walking away with two Knicks tickets and one legendary photo. Fields wrote on Twitter at the time that the contest was over and that Tim Chalamet was the winner, congratulating him and confirming he would see him Friday at the game.
The throwback hit differently given how Chalamet behaved once the actual championship was secured. The Dune star celebrated in the Knicks locker room after their historic 94-90 win over San Antonio, declaring he’d way rather have this than the Oscars. He added an enthusiastic c’mon baby, Knicks are champions baby, as he captured footage of the celebration on his phone.
Reactions online were split between admiration and gentle ribbing. One fan reasoned that childhood dreams matter more than adulthood dreams, calling his response valid, while another joked that the Academy would never give him an Oscar after that comment. Given that Chalamet has lost the Best Actor race twice in recent years, the timing only added fuel to the jokes, even as most fans seemed to find the moment endearing rather than controversial.
What makes the old tweet land so well alongside the new outburst is the throughline it reveals. A kid who once chased down two basketball players in Grand Central for tickets grew into a movie star still screaming about the same team a decade and a half later, proving that some loyalties really do survive fame, fortune, and a few too many Oscar snubs.
Does the resurfaced 2010 tweet make Chalamet’s Oscars comment feel more earned, or are fans reading too much into a teenager’s lucky day at Grand Central?
