Here’s how MSG crowd greeted Trump before Game 3 of NBA finals
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Donald Trump was favored to be booed when he showed up for Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, and indeed he was.
Trump, a Queens, N.Y. native who was invited to the game by his friend, Knicks owner James Dolan.
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There was a brief “USA, USA” chant at the start of the national anthem, but Trump was loudly booed when he was shown on video screens prior to tip-off.
Trump was shown for several seconds giving a military salute. The boos ended when the U.S. flag followed him on the screens, and fans cheered when Knicks players were shown. Led by star Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs also elicited loud boos.
Trump is watching the game from Dolan’s suite, along with granddaughter Kai, personal adviser Boris Epshteyn and Cabinet secretaries Lee Zeldin, Sean Duffy and Doug Burgum. He is the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game.
Later in the game, he appeared to be falling asleep while sitting next to Dolan.
Trump’s Marine One helicopter flew from his home in New Jersey and landed near Wall Street before his motorcade made its way up through Manhattan and to the arena roughly an hour before tipoff. He encountered a handful of people making rude gestures, and outside the area, one group held signs saying “Trump must go.”
He settled into Dolan’s suite shortly afterward.
During the afternoon before Trump’s arrival, the New York Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service set up a large perimeter surrounding Madison Square Garden. Fans lined up to get inside the arena more than four hours before tipoff, in a scene more closely resembling New Year’s Eve in Times Square than the usual leadup to a basketball game.
The Knicks lead the series 2-0. Teams that go up 2-0 are 32-5 in the NBA Finals.
(The AP contributed reporting)
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