The MSG Wedding Report: July 3rd, a Decoy Theory, and "Stevie Knicks" Night at the NBA Finals

0:03 Caalarokashawk Media twenty nine points. That's how far down the New York Knicks were on Wednesday night before they pulled off one of the most improbable comebacks in NBA Finals history, and Taylor Swift had a court side seat for every second of it inside the very building where she's rumored to be getting married in three weeks. It's Sunday, June fourteenth. I'm Ivey, and welcome back to the show. Quick note before we dive in, we recorded this episode before the results of Saturday Nights Game five in San Antonio. So if the Knicks closed it out or didn't, you know more than we do.

0:43 Right now, let's get into the week. The week's biggest tailor moment came Wednesday, June tenth, when she showed up court side at Madison Square Garden for Game four of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs. And this was a girl's night. Travis Kelcey was nowhere in sight. More on why in a minute, So Taylor brought Alana and Stie him from the band Heim and the whole crew committed to the bit with custom T shirts. Taylor's red Stevie Nicks the Heim's sisters wore Nickelback and Nicole Kidman. Honestly, whoever's making these shirts deserves a race.

1:24 Everything was spelled with a k n at the start. Making it all Nicks, and there was a surprise guest in the courtside crew, Mariska Hargeta, seated right next to Taylor. If that pairing sounds random, it's not. Hargatea appeared in the Bad Blood music video back in twenty fifteen. Taylor famously named one of her cats after Hargatea's Law and Order character Olivia Benson, and Hargatea returned the favor a few years ago by adopting a cat and naming it Karma. This friendship has been and fully cat certified for a while. When Taylor popped up on the JumboTron, the Garden gave her a mostly warm welcome, a few booze in the mix, but overwhelmingly cheers. That's worth noting because just two nights earlier, at Game three, President Trump got emphatically booed at the same arena, and his appearance shut down streets and forced fans through airport style security in the heat. He skipped Game four. Then the game itself happened. The Knicks fell behind by twenty nine points and somehow clawed all the way back, winning by a single point on an og Anenobi tippin' in the final seconds. Taylor was reportedly jumping for joy in the bowels of the arena afterward. The win put New York up three to one in the series, one victory away from their first championship since nineteen seventy three, which is why Game five on Saturday night was such

2:55 a big deal and why we'll all be talking about it Monday, no matter what happened. One more detail from Wednesday. Before tip off, Taylor was chatting with fans near her seats, and a lipreader hired by The Daily Mail claims she was asked about Travis and responded, it's such a shame. He really wanted to come. Take lipreading reports with the usual grain of salt, but it tracks because where was Travis. Travis Kelcey spent the week at Mandatory Chiefs Mini camp in Kansas City, which ran June ninth through the eleventh, meaning he missed not only the Knicks game, but also Tuesday's Toy Story five premiere in Los Angeles, where Taylor walked the red carpet solo and gave the crowd a surprise performance of her new soundtrack song I Knew It, I Knew You, plus a duet of You've Got a Friend in Me with Randy Newman. She told the audience, it means the world to be a small part of these films. Travis won't be away from the Spotlight long though.

3:58 He and brother Jason are taping a live episode of New Heights at the Orpheum Theater in downtown LA on June fifteenth. That's tomorrow if you're listening on release day. And he's heading into his fourteenth NFL season with a new title on his resume, minority owner of the Cleveland Guardians, a stake he picked up in May. He called it a dream come true for a Cleveland kid and a way to cement himself back into the East side of the city. Okay, the wedding rumors have been chaotic, so let's lay this out in order, because the reporting has been all over the map. The engagement itself goes back to September twenty twenty five. The your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married Instagram post by late last year, the bridal party was reportedly taking shape. The Sun reported that Taylor asked Jiji Hadid to be a bridesmaid over a dinner in New York in November, and that Selena Gomez got the ask around the same time.

5:01 Both are friendships that stretch back well over a decade, so no surprises there. The first real venue signal came this past April, when Page six reported that Michael Rubin moved his famous July fourth party up to July first, specifically so it wouldn't collide with the wedding that locked in the date window Independence Day weekend. Early venue rumors bounced around the Ocean House in Rhode Island, somewhere in New York City, even Taylor's Soho apartment. Then, just over a week ago, a Daily Mail insider dropped the big one Madison Square Garden July third. The reporting says the couple considered Casa Chipriani in Manhattan's Financial District first, then decided to embrace the spectacle and go with the garden, though Chipriani may still host a private celebration. TMZ added that despite MSG holding around twenty thousand people, the guest list is reportedly in the one thousand one hundred to one thousand two hundred range.

6:08 The NYPD is said. To already be and talks about security, and guests reportedly won't have the location confirmed until the morning of the wedding itself. As for who's on that list, Selina, Gigi Sukie Waterhouse, Kara Delavine, the Him sisters, who notably were the ones Court sided with Taylor on Wednesday, plus Patrick and Brittany Mahomes and other Chiefs teammates. Jason Kelsey is expected by Travis's side, reportedly not invited longtime Swift friend Miles Teller and his wife Keeley. Now the twist, not everyone buys the MSG story. On Canada's The Social, Andrea Bain floated a theory that there are several different wedding plans circulating, and that the MSG story may have been fed to one specific person in Taylor circle to smoke out a leaker. As Bain put it, we don't know if she's getting married at Madison Square Garden, but someone is off the list. Meanwhile, entertainment reporter Rob Shooter says most people he knows think MSG is a decoy. Guests get told to meet at the garden, then get put on buses to the real location. For what it's worth, wedding planner Colin Cowie, who isn't involved but has planned weddings for j Low and Ben Affleck, says this level of secrecy is standard for an event this big. Decoy locations, code names, no phone policies, NDA's no plus ones. His

7:41 phrase for it cloak and dagger. All of it is cloak and dagger. The financial incentive for the first leaked photo is enormous, and history shows even fortresses don't always hold. Paparazzi got clear shots of Kim and Kanye's wedding in an actual Italian fortress, So here's where we land. The date July third seems solid. The venue MSG is either the real deal, a loyalty test, or an elaborate bus stop, possibly all three at different points. We'll know in less than three weeks. More In just a moment, and finally, some drama from the golf world. Gina Simms, model actress and wife of golf star Brooks Kopka gave an interview to People this week recalling meeting Travis at a pro am back in February, where Brooks played nine holes with him.

8:42 Her quote, I was so excited to meet Travis Kelcey. I mean, he's my hall pass Brooks knows that. She also admitted she dressed sportier than usual that day, specifically because she knew Travis would be there, and gush that he recognized her again at the Masters in April. Were not amused. The comments ranged from this is the kind of thing you keep to yourself to a simple all caps cringe. Sims did confirm one thing definitively, though she will not be at the wedding, shocking. That's the week. By the time you hear this, game five is in the books, and if the Knicks one, Taylor Swift's rumored wedding venue is also home to a championship team for the first time in fifty three years. If they lost, the series comes back to New York on Tuesday the sixteenth, with a potential Game seven in Texas on the nineteenth.

9:37 Either way, the Garden is the center of the universe right now. We'll see you next week. Thanks for listening.