How Knicks fan Ben Stiller tweets his way through the season - ESPN

Editor's note: This story was originally published in April 2024 before the New York Knicks' opening playoff game. The Knicks are in pursuit of their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance since 2000.

Ben Stiller's routine is simple. When the New York Knicks are playing, he clears his schedule and tries to be home.

He doesn't make dinner plans on game nights. Stiller guesses that might be the definition of «being maybe a little too into it.» When not sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden, his preference is simply watching the team alone.

«I can then… shout or scream at the screen or whatever,» Stiller told ESPN. «And I find when I'm watching the game in public, I start releasing sounds that I'm not aware of when I'm alone.»

When he's watching by himself, Stiller remains connected to his fellow Knicks faithful across the world thanks to his frequent posts on X.

Stiller's posts are almost strictly about the team. Since the start of the 2023-24 season on Oct. 25, 2023, "#Knicks" or "#LetsGoKnicks" have been included in his posts over 100 times. "#Brunson" is another one of Stiller's preferred hashtags, with over 40 posts.

While the «Zoolander» actor and born New Yorker isn't sure how the posting started — his earliest Knicks-related posts date back to late 2020 — he said the X connection with other passionate fans has been «really fun to engage in.»

«I guess it just became an outlet kind of, and like I said, it was kind of like, just an organic way of expressing myself,» Stiller said. «And then I started to engage with some of these fans because it's just fun on that level, when it's just about the game or about the team, and then you connect with these people who are as passionate.»

It has come at a fun time too.