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- WATCH: NYPD Officers Grab a Knicks Player and Yank Him from the Parade Mistaking...
Screenshot via Kimberley A. Martin/X Tyler Kolek may play for NBA champions the New York Knicks, but he wasn’t recognizable to NYPD officers during a Thursday celebration. ESPN reporter Kimberley A. Martin shared video of Kolek high-fiving and celebrating with fans gathered in New York City to celebrate the Knicks’ historic championship victory. The New York team beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games, which included an explosive comeback in Game 4 where the Knicks made up for a 29-point deficit. In the video of Kolek, 25, multiple officers stop him and remove him from the crowd as Kolek appears to be explaining that he’s on the team. The officers simply believed he was a fan getting too excited (he was holding a Michelob Ultra while getting the crowd fired up). Kolek has had plenty of court time, though he did not play in the NBA Finals games, which may have led to some of the confusion. Cops mistook Tyler Kolek for a fan #alwaysknicks pic.twitter.com/7LxI29zahb — Kimberley A. Martin (@ByKimberleyA) June 18, 2026 Kolek, a guard, played in more than 60 regular-season games and eight postseason games. He took the moment well enough to joke about it on X later, responding to someone saying security “almost tackled” him. “I swear I’m on the team, bro,” he posted, along with laughing emojis. I swear I’m on the team bro https://t.co/7AJyNXAIfz — Tyler Kolek (@tyler_kolek) June 18, 2026 Kolek has been posting videos to his Instagram from Thursday’s celebration, showing off the massive crowd and his trophy. Tyler Kolek’s parade POV from his insta. Look at that crowd. pic.twitter.com/BkHYD9xNyx — KNICKS BEAST (@KnicksBeast) June 18, 2026 “This my real trophy right here. Y’all got that one I got this one” Tyler Kolek to Jalen Brunson while holding the NBA Cup trophy (via tyler_kolek/IG) pic.twitter.com/cu1gD5gOyF — SNY Knicks (@sny_knicks) June 18, 2026 Knicks players are being presented with keys to the city during the Thursday celebration in Manhattan. The jersey numbers of the team’s roster were hung at City Hall, but there was one noticeable blunder: player Dillon Jones’s jersey was shown with the number 33, a number that forever belongs to Patrick Ewing. His jersey was retired in 2003. This is the Knicks’ first championship victory in more than 50 years.The post WATCH: NYPD Officers… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - ‘What the F*ck?’: Stephen A. Smith Snaps at Caller Spouting Anti-Trump Talki...
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith snapped at a caller spouting anti-Trump rhetoric on Smith’s SiriusXM radio show, Straight Shooter with Stephen A., Wednesday. “Stephen, I’d like to congratulate you for being the latest Black person to be called low IQ by President [Donald] Trump,” the caller, Joe, immediately began. “It’s quite a long and distinguished list of people.” Last week, amid a days-long war of words between Trump and Smith, the president branded the sports commentator “an arrogant fool, a low IQ individual” and “‘dumb as a rock'” in a Truth Social post that also mocked Smith’s purported political aspirations. Smith took a sip from his drink and appeared to sigh before cutting the caller off in what began as a seemingly calm rebuke: I’m not going to fall for that. I’m not saying you are trying to. You’re not doing anything wrong, Joe. You are not inaccurate. … Let’s not use that as a reason and cause to engage in the racial dynamics of the situation. I’m not taking it that way. I don’t think that Donald Trump does this to Black people and not this to white people. I think Donald Trump does anything to anybody who is anti-Trump. He don’t give a d**n what color, ethnicity, race, or group you are associated with. He could care less. If you are not pro-Trump, you are his enemy, and he treats you like it. That is what I believe. The caller doubled down, turning the “low IQ” insult around on Trump as he said, “But speaking of low IQ, a lot of people think Donald Trump is low IQ and stupid.” Smith appeared to remain measured, even somewhat defensive of Trump, as he refused to “get caught up in that”: I used to talk to him for years before he was ever running for president. Folks didn’t call him stupid then. When he was on Oprah Winfrey‘s show and he was friends with Whoopi Goldberg and others, people weren’t calling him dumb them. As a matter of fact, people were asking him if he would ever run for office because they thought he was smart and they thought he was bright, because in all likelihood, he probably was. At the end of the day, he’s older now, he’s 80 years of age, he might have lost his fastball. He must have lost his step. We don’t have to get into all of… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago - Daily Wire Founder Destroys Tucker Carlson in Stunning Commentary: ‘Most Dange...Jeremy Boreing, the co-founder and former CEO of the Daily Wire, went off on Tucker Carlson during a podcast discussion this week and revealed the exact moment he knew Carlson was the “most dangerous man in American politics.” Boreing made the comments on his podcast on Wednesday after NY Post columnist Karol Markowicz noted, “The first time I saw them ever disagree, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro, was — Ben asking Tucker, ‘Would you ban self-driving trucks in order to save the jobs?’ And Tucker said, ‘Of course I would.’ And I was like, what? What are we talking about here?” “That was 2018. Tucker said it in my office, and then on the show, the same conversation sort of played out organically, and then we set it back up on air,” Boreing said, adding: And what Tucker actually — you know, the follow-up question was, “On what basis would you ban self-driving cars? The president doesn’t have that kind of authority.” And he said, “Safety.” And I said, “Well, but I think the premise is that self-driven cars would be safer.” We didn’t have them back then, but if we ever achieve autonomous driving, it’ll be safer than human driving. And he said, “Well, you didn’t ask me what’s true. You asked me on what basis I would justify outlawing self-driving cars.” And from that moment, from 2018 forward, Ben and I often said to one another that Tucker was the most dangerous man in American politics — not because he would lie for power. Anyone might lie for power under certain circumstances. To your point, all of a sudden — “fall short of the glory of God” is kind of like a core Christian concept, like the idea that Trump is flawed should come as no surprise. Everyone’s flawed. Anyone might lie for power. Anybody might lie for money. Anybody might lie to keep from getting caught in some sin. Tucker wasn’t being self-effacing or admitting to human frailty. He was saying, with a kind of boldness, “I would lie for power.” That’s much different than saying, you know — I mean, sure, I might lie for power — that’s not a plan. That’s an acknowledgement of something that’s wrong with me. And I think what Tucker was doing was different than that, and I think we’ve seen that. There’s no guilt. There’s justifying. The ends justify… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- ‘Aggressive Uncharity’: Catholic Interviewer Confronts JD Vance Over Trump A...
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) In a new episode of The New York Times’s podcast Interesting Times, opinion columnist Ross Douthat — who noted during the discussion he’s a “conservative Catholic writer” — asked Vice President J.D. Vance about his new book, “Communion,” and “whether or not the Trump administration’s policies embody Christian values.” Vance’s book details his journey back to faith from atheism and his embrace of Catholic ideology. “Let’s stipulate that the Trump administration has, in some way, a kind of vision of rebuilding the working class that’s connected to Christianity,” Douthat said. “It also seems to me like the administration has distanced itself in different ways from some other obvious expressions of Christian influence on politics, some of them more sort of liberal coded, some of them more conservative coded.” When Vance asked what he meant, Douthat answered, “The administration has been more hostile than any prior Republican administration, to say nothing of Democrats in the last 20 years, to the way we do humanitarian aid. It has kept religious conservatives, pro-life organizations, especially, at arm’s length in a way that has led to a lot of criticism.” Douthat added, “And then, let’s be honest, the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity to people who aren’t on board with the administration’s policies. So I would describe those as three areas where the administration has felt functionally post-Christian to me, and I’m curious what you think.” “So on the tone thing, it’s very hard to rebut this, because it’s fundamentally unfalsifiable,” Vance answered. “For every clip that you could show me of me or the president or some cabinet secretary saying something that in your view is un-Christian, I could show you another few clips of us doing something or saying something that is very Christian.” Vance continued, “My point is I’m not saying we’re perfect, because we’re not. My point is that the tone argument is, in some ways, I think, people see what they want to see. And I also think that tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working-class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences.” Douthat addressed Vance’s public opposition to Pope Leo XIV on the Iran war, asking, “How have you ended up as a Catholic convert vice president fighting with the pope about the Iran war?” “Because I’m not fighting… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago - Rosie O’Donnell Predicts Trump Will Use Assassination Attempt or Terrorist Bom...Rosie O’Donnell believes President Donald Trump will cancel the midterm elections by using either an assassination attempt or a terrorist bombing as the excuse. O’Donnell spoke with author and former presidential hopeful Marianna Williamson on Wednesday, and the pair both believe there will be a “rigging” of the midterm elections. O’Donnell fled the United States and now resides in Ireland. She left in January 2025 and cited Trump’s second term in the White House as the reason. The two have been publicly feuding since long before Trump entered the political arena. The years of back-and-forth insults go back to a heated View interview in 2006, when O’Donnell was a co-host, where O’Donnell pressed Trump on his businesses, bankruptcies, and more. During her discussion with Williamson, O’Donnell shared her belief about Trump straight up taking away peoples’ right to vote. “It’s also a very serious and sober moment because at the same time, the people are revving up for the midterms. They are revving up as well for an obvious rigging of this election,” Williamson said when O’Donnell jumped in to share her theory. O’Donnell said: Not only a rigging, but I think he will have some sort of crisis, whether it’s an assassination attempt or a terrorist bombing. There will be some catastrophic event and he will say there will be no elections. That is what I think is going to happen because if you read Project 2025 you would have not believed that they wrote down exactly what they’ve done to our country and America didn’t notice. If you don’t think that they would take away our right to vote when they’ve already done the Voters Rights Act, when they’ve already set up concentration camps, we are past the precipice, America. And everyone needs to believe still, believe — hope is the last thing to die, people. We have to believe. I am very thrilled for how the Democrats now seem to be doing — but if I read one more text from a senator saying what he did and not doing anything about it — well, they can’t, Rosie, because they’re the minority. You know what? There were many minority groups that stood their ground and saved our nation before. O’Donnell told Williamson her move to Ireland was to protect her “sanity” and avoid the “stress and anxiety” of Trump. “That was my choice in order to keep… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
- ‘I Want Them To Go’: Whoopi Goldberg Has Unexpected Take On Knicks&#...
“I want all those Black men to stand in our house and remind all of those people ... that when you try to destroy one part of history, you’re destroying all of our histories,” she said on "The View." [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
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