Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner embrace after Knicks win

Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner shared a friendly courtside hug after the New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on June 10. The brief, upbeat moment quickly went viral online, especially because Swift and Jenner’s sister, Kim Kar

When the New York Knicks wrapped up their victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on June 10, Taylor Swift was right there in the moment—on the court celebrating with other fans. For a second, the night belonged to basketball.

Then, TikTok footage made it belong to pop culture too.

In the clip circulating online, Swift appears to spot Kylie Jenner in the crowd. She smiles. waves. and then steps forward to hug Jenner as Jenner greets her with an enthusiastic “Hi.” During their quick exchange. Jenner tells Swift how “excited” she is about the game—an offhand line that became a lot bigger as the hug traveled across the internet.

The interaction stood out fast. especially because Swift’s public feud with Kim Kardashian has been part of the entertainment conversation for years—fed by the fallout from Kanye West’s 2016 track “Famous.” The song included the lyric. “I feel like me and Taylor might still have s** / Why?. I made that b**** famous.” Swift denied ever approving the line, while West insisted she had agreed to it.

That disagreement escalated when Kardashian released excerpts of a phone call between Swift and West to back West’s version of events.

In 2023, Swift later spoke to TIME about Kardashian’s role in the controversy. She said. “You have a fully manufactured frame job. in an illegally recorded phone call. which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar. That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before.”.

Swift revisited the dispute again in 2024 with her track “thanK you aIMee,” widely interpreted as a targeted reference to Kardashian. Fans also pointed to the capitalization in the title—spelling out “KIM.”

And yet, Jenner’s presence alongside Swift offered a different kind of snapshot: one that wasn’t built around the past.

Kardashian. for her part. hasn’t carried the feud into her public tone as relentlessly as the wider narrative might suggest. Earlier this year. she appeared on her sister Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé In Wonder Land” podcast and said she still listens to Swift’s music. “I have some of [Taylor Swift’s] older songs on my playlist. I’ve always thought she was, like, a super talented great artist,” she noted.

Back on that June 10 night at the Knicks game. Swift and Kylie Jenner’s hug didn’t rewrite history—it just offered a brief. visible interruption to it. In the aftermath, people online leaned into the moment’s contrast, with one tweet reading, “Peace in the universe confirmed. Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner hugging courtside… Knicks really uniting the timelines today.”.

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