Alana Haim she’s a proud Valley girl — but that didn’t stop her from making custom gear to support the New York Knicks while sitting courtside in the 2026 NBA Finals.
Singer and actress – born and raised in Los Angeles along with her sisters and partners, Danielle again Este Haim — shared with a friend Taylor Swift in the Game 4 finals on Wednesday, June 10, which did not sit well with some critics who called them jumping on the Knicks.
“I’m from LA, and I love the Lakers, but I also love the Knicks,” Alana, 34, told. Vogue in a story published on Thursday, June 11. “It’s an incredible season for them, and it was an honor to appear for them. That, I think, is probably the greatest basketball game ever played, and I hope they bring a championship, because they are an amazing team.”
The Knicks erased a 29-point deficit, the largest in NBA Finals history, and defeated the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4, bringing the franchise one win away from its first NBA title since 1973.
While many sports fans view the cities of New York and Los Angeles as fierce, stadium-heavy foes, Alana doesn’t see it that way.
“I think we can all be friends,” he countered. “There is no hostility there.”
For Game 4, Alana, her sisters and Swift, 36, were decked out in custom, pop culture-inspired Knicks shirts that Alana made by hand.
Alana reads “Knickelback,” while sisters Este and Danielle rock “Knickole Kidman” and “Knickolas Cage,” respectively, and Swift’s is “Stevie Knicks.”
“If I get anything from this, it’s that I want people to go out and make shirts,” he said. Vogue. “It’s a fun hobby, and it’s very easy to do. I’m a Sagittarius, so there’s a ton of arts and crafts I’ve done, from needlepoint to amazing. I want people to do more arts and crafts!”
Alana peeled back the layers of her creative process, revealing that the shirts were all Swift’s idea.
“I got a text from Taylor that was exactly what you want as a novice screen printer. He said, ‘I want to wear this shirt to the game, can you make it for me?'” Alana said. “And I said, ‘I thought you would never ask, this is my dream.’ Whenever I start a session with a friend, I go, ‘Let’s talk about fonts, let’s talk about sizes,’ and [Swift] he brought Stevie Knicks.”
Alana continued, “We were kind of going back and forth with these words; we just wanted to have fun, because we were so excited to go to the game, and I thought it would make people laugh, so we put the shirts on and we all decided to wear them.”
