{"id":470045,"date":"2026-05-05T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:01:10","slug":"timothee-chalamet-made-the-right-choice-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470045\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Made the Right Choice Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn 1994, the world nearly saw the New York Knicks<\/a> win their first NBA Championship since 1973. The Patrick Ewing-led (and John Starks let-down) squad fell short to Hakeem Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets in seven games. (Starks shot 0-11 from three-point range and 2-18 overall in Game 7; the Knicks have not come especially close to winning the Larry O\u2019Brien trophy since.)<\/p>\n

\n\tNot that that\u2019s what the \u201994 NBA Finals are ever remembered for.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn June 17, 1994, with the best-of-seven championship series tied 2-2 and the Knicks on the precipice of a home victory, most NBC affiliates carrying game five went split-screen: half Knicks-Rockets, half Al Cowlings driving O.J. Simpson down various Los Angeles freeways at slow speeds ahead of a heavy police escort. Simpson claimed to hold a loaded gun to his own head in the back of his white Ford Bronco, saying he was going to kill himself. The police took the threat seriously, probably in part because Simpson was at the time a respected former NFL star, an active NBC Sports analyst, and the star of the Naked Gun movies \u2014 but also because he had just killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her associate Ron Goldman. Allegedly.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the time Timoth\u00e9e Hal Chalamet was born on Dec. 27, 1995, Simpson had been criminally acquitted of the homicide charges. Simpson was later found to be responsible for the deaths in a civil case, and the court of public opinion has always known the truth.<\/p>\n

\n\tChalamet, 30, is not an especially long-suffering Knickerbockers fan \u2014 but last night, he earned his fan card (and I would argue, his man card).<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, the Knicks opened their second-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers, dismantling their tristate-area rivals 137-98. New York\u2019s 20-8 run to end the game wasn\u2019t quite the team\u2019s 67-13 run to break the Atlanta Hawks in round one, but it was more than enough to put Philly stars Paul George and Joel Embiid to bed. Not that they likely slept well.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs per recent tradition, Chalamet sat front row for the show, his baby-blue adidas on the hardwood. But what makes last night\u2019s appearance special was not necessarily where Chalamet was, but where he was not.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only other game in town last night that could rival Game One was the 2026 Met Gala<\/a>, the annual ultra-swanky fundraising ball for the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute. That\u2019s where Chalamet\u2019s girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, was, along with family members<\/a> Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kris Jenner. Ben Stiller<\/a> was there too.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese days, this side of Spike Lee (and with all due respect to Tracy Morgan), Stiller and Chalamet are the anchor tenants on Madison Square Garden\u2019s celebrity row. They had a tough decision to make on Monday, and ultimately it was Zoolander, not Marty Supreme, who dipped on MSG for the M-e-t. (Note: not the M-e-t-s, because most people wouldn\u2019t skip a root canal to watch the last place New York Mets.) Lee did the right thing this year, choosing to attend the game over the gala (presuming he was invited), the reverse of his controversial 2025 choice. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s Met Gala itself was not without controversy itself<\/a>. Amazon executive chairman (and founder, and former CEO) Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren S\u00e1nchez were the chief sponsors of the couture event this year, which led to quite a bit of backlash. For a reported $10 million, Bezos and S\u00e1nchez bought their way into the highest of high society \u2014 they co-chaired last night\u2019s event alongside Anna Wintour, Beyonc\u00e9,\u00a0Nicole Kidman<\/a>\u00a0and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKylie Jenner at The 2026 Met Gala Celebrating \u201cCostume Art\u201d held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026, in New York, New York. (Photo by Gilbert Flores\/Variety via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGilbert Flores\/Variety\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tSeeing Chalamet (and not Stiller) seated courtside in a folding chair was a stunner that, for some, may have solidified the Wonka star as the Jack Nicholson of the East. (Lee is still the Hollywood name most-associated with the Knicks, but directors don\u2019t have leading-man crossover appeal.) Imagine telling Kylie Jenner you\u2019re going to skip what is her annual Super Bowl for an early-second-round basketball game? Kardashians have gotten divorced for less.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, Kylie is not the only fashion icon in the relationship: Chalamet is a brand ambassador for Chanel and Cartier, and creative adviser for Urban J\u00fcrgensen. He regularly tops our annual Red Carpet Power Rankings<\/a>, a collaboration between The Hollywood Reporter and Launchmetrics. Skipping the Met Gala in favor of the Knicks game was a professional decision for Chalamet as much as it was a personal statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast night, cheering on his guys solo, Chalamet went from being a pretty boy to a dude \u2014 not an easy leap. Meanwhile, to get back in the Garden\u2019s good graces, on Wednesday, Stiller may have to buy a World\u2019s-Most-Famous-Arena\u2019s\u2122 worth of beers.<\/p>\n

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