Kylie Jenner joined Timothée Chalamet courtside for the Chalamet Jenner NBA Finals moment everyone is talking about: a 29-point comeback win that put New York on the edge of a championship. The couple left their hotel for Madison Square Garden wearing matching denim Chrome Hearts looks before watching the Knicks defeat the Spurs 107-106 in Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead, according to NBA.com.
A Night to Remember at the Garden
The game itself delivered the kind of drama that makes lifelong fans lose their minds, and Chalamet is very much a lifelong fan. After the final buzzer, he spoke to Entertainment Tonight in a state of pure elation over the comeback win. Jenner, standing beside him, simply pointed her phone his way and let him go: the video, posted to her Instagram, captured his reaction in full.
The comeback was nothing short of extraordinary. The Knicks clawed back from a 29-point deficit to seal a 107-106 victory, with OG Anunoby completing the turnaround via a heroic tip-in in the closing seconds, CBS Sports reports. For a franchise and its supporters who have waited a very long time for a night like this, the significance is hard to overstate: the Knicks are back in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, having advanced after beating Cleveland 130-93 to complete a sweep, per ESPN.
Chalamet, who grew up in New York City, has been rooting for the Knicks since childhood. He was at Game 3 earlier in the week too, wearing an orange Chrome Hearts tracksuit. The denim co-ordinate he and Jenner chose for Game 4 continued what has become a full collaboration between the actor and the brand across the course of the postseason.
Chrome Hearts, Custom Looks and a Muse Named Timothée
The Chalamet Jenner NBA Finals denim moment did not come together by accident. The actor has been working with Chrome Hearts throughout the season on custom game looks, and the brand’s president and co-owner, Laurie Lynn Stark, is clearly delighted with how that relationship has developed.
‘Timothée is like a muse,’ Stark told Vogue. ‘He comes in, he works closely with us on looks, he does his fittings. He’s an amazing person to work with; he knows exactly what he wants but is also so willing to engage with us and work collaboratively. It’s my son [designer Kristian Jack Stark] that has a special relationship with him, and that’s just grown as we’ve kept dressing him.’
Jenner had already signalled where her loyalties lay before tip-off. She posted a photo of a dot cake decorated with sprinkles in the Knicks’ colours to her Instagram Story ahead of the game, a small but cheerful piece of pre-match kit that suggested she has fully come around to the cause.
A Couple Making Courtside Their Thing
This was not Jenner’s first appearance in a Knicks crowd. She last attended a game on 25 May, when the team were playing the Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Arena, again alongside Chalamet. The couple regularly turns up together, and their courtside appearances have become something of a fixture in the conversation around this Knicks run.
Chalamet’s commitment to the team has come at a personal cost, of sorts. The actor skipped the last two Met Galas, which Jenner attended on her own, in order to watch Knicks games instead. For a postseason that has now stretched all the way to the Finals, it is a trade-off he appears to have zero regrets about.
The Chalamet Jenner NBA Finals denim outing was, in other words, the culmination of a long season of courtside dedication. With the Knicks now one win away from a first championship in decades, Chalamet’s next appearance at the Garden could be the one he has been waiting for since he was a kid growing up in New York City.
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