Gov. Kathy Hochul tried to dunk on President Trump over his New York Knicks fandom — but ended up throwing up a brick instead.
The Democratic governor inadvertently showed she wasn’t exactly bleeding orange and blue when she misstated the team’s most recent championship in an embarrassing self-own when a reporter asked her what she thought of the GOP leader saying he was a lifelong Knicks fan.
“I’d ask him to name the starting lineup from the 1993 championship team and see how he does,” Hochul said at an unrelated press conference in the Big Apple.
The Knicks last won a championship in 1973, but made it to the NBA Finals in 1994, losing to the Houston Rockets in a seven-game series after the 1993-94 season. In 1993, New York blew a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls.
The Knicks also reached the finals in 1999, but came up short against the San Antonio Spurs.
Hochul’s air ball had critics pouncing, including the president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr.
“Anyone who knows my father knows he probably knows more about Sports than just about any human being not in the business,” Trump Jr. tweeted in a shot at Hochul.
“Kathy’s failed soundbite ain’t gonna land well… just like her policies.”
The flub comes as Trump, a Queens native and former Manhattan businessman, said he was hoping to head to Madison Square Garden to see the Knicks in the finals after a dominating playoff run that included sweeps of the Philadelphia 76ers and Cleveland Cavaliers in the last two series.
The president said he was invited to root for his hometown team by owner Jim Dolan and planned on attending Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but the Knicks clinched the series in four games.
He would be the first sitting president to attend an NBA championship game after he was the first sitting president take in the Super Bowl last year.
“I was invited by numerous people, and Jim, and I think it’s great. Great to see it,” he said during a cabinet meeting.
“The Knicks have really, they’ve really suffered for years and they’re doing right now very well.”
Hochul’s press team played off the embarrassing gaffe in a cringe-inducing social media post later Wednesday.
“She was baiting Trump into pretending that team won the finals,” the governor’s press office posted. “A classic 4D chess move.”
The Knicks will play the winner of the Western Conference Finals, a matchup between the Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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