Ben Stiller Goes Viral for Social Media Posts About Knicks Game While Presenting at the 2025 Oscars

Mar. 15, 2025

Ben Stiller at the 2025 Oscars.Photo:Stewart Cook/Disney/Getty

Stewart Cook/Disney/Getty

Ben Stillerelicited lots of laughs while presenting at the2025 Oscars, especially when he took the time to post about the New York Knicks’ win during the star-studded event.

On Sunday, March 2, hiscelebratory post on Xquickly went viral. “KNICKS WIN,” the 59-year-old actor wrote, shortly after presenting the Academy Award for Best Production.

While onstage, theSeverancedirector performed a funny bit about the importance of production design as he attempted to speak to the crowd from a sunken platform that wouldn’t rise to the main stage level. He then climbed out before namingWickedas the winner.

Immediately after leaving the stage, Stiller posted about the Knicks’ 116-114 win in overtime against the Miami Heat. Fans of the New York team were ecstatic.

“Ben’s tweet is Knicks fandom summed up in a nutshell,” another follower posted onX, while another personresponded, “He got courtside seats at the Oscars.”

The posts in honor of his basketball team are routine for Stiller, who is a longtime fan of the team. (Just days before, on Feb. 28, he wrote “KNKCKS WIN,” following their victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.)

In January, Stillergave a fan a hugafter the man won a 2025 Kia Telluride X-Line at the Jan. 17th game between the Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden.

Stiller was in attendance at the game alongsideSeverance’sAdam Scott, Zach Cherry and Britt Lower. Basketball is one of the ways the cast and crew connects outside of production.

Ben Stiller (center) at a Knicks game on Jan. 17, 2025.Sarah Stier/Getty

Sarah Stier/Getty

As Stiller explained toPEOPLE earlier this year, he and the cast shot season 2 in 186 days and had “a lot of moments together.”

“When we went to shoot episode four on location in the mountains, that was fun,” the actor recalled. “We had a wrap party for that episode at a roller rink. That was awesome.”

“And yeah, I remember we all watched the eclipse together. The solar eclipse,” he added. “I have pictures of us all going outside of the stage in the Bronx there to look at that.”

source: people.com