Anne Hathaway brought her Knicks fandom back into the spotlight on April 30, 2026, telling The Tonight Show that she is a “very chill,” “very loving and calm” fan and even considering wearing an OG Anunoby jersey on the program.
The Oscar-winning actor said that when she is at Knicks games, she wants players to know she recognizes them and believes they will win. “I’m trying to be like a gentle, loving, motherly fan,” Hathaway said, adding, “And when you miss the basket, that wasn’t you. … That basket moved, I saw it.”
Hathaway was on the show to promote her new movie, The Devil Wears Prada 2, but the conversation quickly moved to basketball and to the kind of courtside presence that has made her one of the team’s more recognizable celebrity supporters. She has been spotted at Madison Square Garden before, and that visibility helps explain why a Knicks appearance on late-night TV still lands with fans who follow both the team and its famous regulars.
She said she was not at the Knicks’ Game 5 win over the Hawks on Tuesday because she was working, adding that she did not know the playoff series would go that deep. “It was such a great game,” she said. The comment tied her absence to a game that mattered because it kept New York moving in the playoffs, and because Hathaway’s own fan status has become part of the team’s broader pop-culture orbit.
That orbit still carries the memory of 2024, when OG Anunoby nearly careened into Hathaway during a game at Madison Square Garden. Recalling the moment, she said, “I was so excited about the ball, I never imagined something better was going to happen,” and then, “Which was that OG was going to be right there.” She said time slowed down as he came toward her and that she knew he did not want to hit her or her family any more than she wanted to be hit.
The result is a celebrity fan base that now has its own lore, but Hathaway’s latest appearance also sharpened the practical question for Knicks supporters: where the team goes from here, and what its next game will look like after a playoff win that kept the run alive.
