{"id":742424,"date":"2026-05-24T03:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/742424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:18","slug":"life-of-a-basketball-fan-taylor-swift-attends-cavs-knicks-in-cleveland-with-fiance-travis-kelce-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/742424\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of A Basketball Fan: Taylor Swift attends Cavs-Knicks in Cleveland with fiance Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Turns out, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> likes basketball, too.<\/p>\n<p>The global music superstar sat courtside at Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night along with fiance and Cleveland native Travis Kelce as the Cavaliers hosted the New York Knicks desperately needing a win in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Kelce, who recently signed a 3-year, $54 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, took their seats in Rocket Arena shortly before the opening tip. Their appearance caused a stir as fans reacted to seeing the power couple together.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce didn\u2019t need long to settle in and was animated while cheering for the Cavs.<\/p>\n<p>With the Cavs trailing 91-82 at the end of the third quarter, Kelce and Swift were shown on the arena\u2019s giant scoreboard. Fans cheered wildly as Kelce showed off his team cap and wine-and-gold shirt before chugging a beer to help rally the Cavs.<\/p>\n<p>As Kelce gulped down his beverage, Swift covered her mouth and feigned shock and embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Swift became a staple at Chiefs home games when she began dating Kelce a few years ago. She also accompanied him to Game 1 of the AL Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Kelce has attended Cavs games in the past and he and his brother, Jason, were celebrated with a bobblehead giveaway by Cleveland in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The couple announced their engagement last year and there are reports they\u2019ll get married sometime this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks have a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series after winning twice at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Turns out, Taylor Swift likes basketball, too. The global music superstar sat courtside at Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,193,74,6,446,11,9130,1136,7295,191,19134,578,16,66,3261,11940,16210],"class_list":["post-742424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-entertainment","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nfl-football","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116627405746419104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742424","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=742424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}