'Loud series of boos' for Trump expected at Knicks game after he sabotaged event: MS NOW

President Donald Trump plans to attend the first NBA Finals game in nearly three decades at Madison Square Garden, and panelists on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" predicted he would not find a friendly reception from his hometown.

The New York Knicks will face off Monday night against the San Antonio Spurs in game 3 of the Finals, which will require fans to wait in extra-long security lines to enter the arena and forced the cancellation of a watch party outside, all of which will anger the crowd inside, according to the panelists.

"The whole idea of we are living at a time in which everything must be about him," said journalist Pablo Torre. "This is why this sucks. There is a story, it existed, and, of course it could not last. Nothing gold can last. As I say, it existed in this beautiful snow globe of sports and city, and in comes the president, and I get it. You've got to provide security, it doesn't make sense to have the greatest party in sports happening outside, because, of course there are dangers. I'm not saying that the president does not deserve protection. It is merely that by inviting him and choosing to favor his whims over the city, you're making a choice that is frankly reflected in everything else happening in sports and life, in which billionaires get to be prioritized, fast-passed into the heart of something great."

Trump has gone to a number of sporting events as president and attended the occasional Knicks home game before entering politics, but host Jonathan Lemire doesn't expect New Yorkers to welcome him back with open arms.

"Do they show him on the jumbotron?" Lemire wondered. "How many times do they show him on TV, and in that arena, if they do show him, what is the reception? What is the volume of boos he's going to face? It could be it could be off the charts."

Author Michael Tomasky agreed.

"I imagine the ticket prices are going to put a few more Republicans in the seats than normal," Tomasky said. "But what's his approval rating among that crowd in Madison Square Garden tonight? Fifteen percent? Maybe 15."

"It's going to be as loud a series of boos as we'll have heard," Torre interjected.

"I don't understand why he'd even want to do this," Tomasky added. "I know if that were me, I wouldn't. I wouldn't come close to the place and the inconveniencing of the people."

"I mean, he does like to associate himself with the winner," Lemire suggested. "The Knicks are winning. He likes to be part of the storyline. The Knicks are the storyline right now in the sports world, you know, and I do think that even the rich guys who the Republicans who might have voted for Donald Trump are still, will have just had to stand in line for three hours, and they're going to be annoyed by that, too."

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