{"id":64451,"date":"2025-05-29T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/64451\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:21:30","slug":"john-mellencamp-slams-indiana-pacers-fans-for-booing-timothee-chalamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/64451\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp Slams Indiana Pacers Fans for Booing Timothee Chalamet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Mellencamp<\/a> is not happy with his home state after some Hoosiers booed a few famous New York Knicks fans \u2014 including Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Ben Stiller, who were sitting courtside \u2014 at Game 4 of the NBA<\/a> Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a strongly worded post on X<\/a> Thursday (May 29), the singer-songwriter \u2014 who attended the match two days prior to support the Indiana Pacers with his girlfriend, producer Kristin Kehrberg \u2014 wrote that he was \u201cembarrassed when somebody, under whose direction I don\u2019t know, called out some of the people who had made the trip from New York to support their team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe audience booed these people,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019d say that was not Hoosier Hospitality. One could only say it\u2019s poor, poor sportsmanship. I was not proud to be a Hoosier, and I\u2019ve lived here my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Mellencamp didn\u2019t mention Pat McAfee by name, the rocker was likely referring to the moment at Game 4 when the sports<\/a> commentator rallied the crowd at Gainsbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis by saying over the speakers, \u201cWe got some big wigs from the big city in the building: Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet is here. Let\u2019s send these sons of b\u2014-es back to New York!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Night at the Museum actor would later call the moment \u201cweird\u201d on X<\/a>, adding, \u201cWe were happy to be there and cheer our team and other than that Indy fans were awesome.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMcAfee later explained<\/a> on the platform, \u201cThey asked me to do that in the fourth quarter and I wasn\u2019t gonna say no,\u201d after which Stiller extended an olive branch by replying, \u201cCome to game 5 Pat!!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBut Mellencamp isn\u2019t letting what happened slide. \u201cOn behalf of most Hoosiers, I would like to apologize for our poor behavior,\u201d he concluded in his note. \u201cI\u2019m sure the Pacers had nothing to do with this smackdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGame 4 would ultimately end with the Pacers defeating the Knicks 130-121, putting the Indiana team at a 3-1 series lead. The next game will take place Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, aka the New York City hoopers\u2019 home turf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp is not happy with his home state after some Hoosiers booed a few famous New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,808,6,114,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-64451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-music-news","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pacers","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114592748953799427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}