Even Celebrity Knicks Fans Have Game-Day Superstitions

Reported by Vogue.

The Knicks are in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999 — and they haven't won a championship since 1973. Tonight, New York returns to Madison Square Garden for Game 3 against the San Antonio Spurs, the exact team that crushed their 1999 title hopes 4-1. With 13 consecutive wins and a 2-0 series lead, the energy is volcanic. And when the stakes are this generational, even the most rational people start treating their shoes like sacred objects.

Celebrity Knicks fans are fully in their superstition era, according to Vogue. Spike Lee reportedly wears a 1970 championship ring on a chain at games. Anne Hathaway has practically been canonized as a good luck charm — after OG Anunoby collided with her courtside in 2024 and Karl-Anthony Towns landed a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 in 2026, both players went on immediate hot streaks. Correlation? Maybe. But try telling that to a Knicks fan right now.

Padma Lakshmi has her own ritual: a pair of leopard Maison Alaïa pumps she's been wearing courtside for years. "The Knicks have never lost when I've worn the Alaïa shoes to Madison Square Garden," she told Vogue. The discovery was accidental — she'd likely rushed over from somewhere else that first time — but the winning record made the heels permanent game-day armor. (She also once swore by a specific black-and-red pillow while watching AC Milan matches in Milan, so the pattern tracks.)

The Lucky Bag Problem

Jordyn Woods, engaged to Towns, has built an entire game-day religion around her orange ostrich Tux Clutch Mini from her own label, Woods by Jordyn. "Once playoffs start, everything becomes part of the ritual if we keep winning," she told Vogue during the Eastern Conference Finals. That included the bag, a specific watch she refuses to remove, and daily GRWM TikToks. The Knicks have won three more games since that conversation. Tonight, however, she hits a wall: President Trump's attendance at Game 3 means MSG has banned all bags from the venue. The internet immediately had one question — what is Jordyn Woods going to do? Her solution, posted in a reel: get Towns to sneak the bag into the building in his own gym bag, or, if necessary, show up in orange ostrich heels made from the same material as the clutch. "Happy game day 💙🧡 one guys not stopping the show," she captioned it.

When a winning streak runs this deep, superstition stops being irrational and starts being the only logical response — and if orange ostrich heels are what it takes to close out San Antonio, so be it.

Read the original at Vogue.