Embarrassing…
Last night, NASCAR Cup Series Champion, and friend of the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast, Ryan Blaney was on hand at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks – Jazz game.
Cup Series driver and Ryan’s good friend, Bubba Wallace, was on hand as well, but if you paid any attention to the New York Knicks twitter account, you’d never know that the reigning champ was in the building.
Why? Because they cropped him out of the photo…
What a clown show…
For those of you who don’t quite understand what’s going on, these Twitter users perfectly explained the situation in NBA terms:
Ok, one more…
Showing Alex Caruso at a football game with Lebron. And cropping out Lebron in the photo
— Michael Little (@lttl03) January 31, 2024
Blaney was a good sport about it, but he’s probably the chillest dude in NASCAR.
And at the end of the day who really cares? You’re the champ, you just got engaged to an absolute BEAUTY (shoutout Gianna), you’re getting PAID… and after the game, you can go to Peter Luger’s without getting bothered (or getting called Ryan Smollett).
Of course, the Twitter-verse (or X-verse?) wouldn’t let the Knicks off as easily as Ryan did.
NASCAR fans took to the comment section and roasted the Knicks for the colossal botch job on the cropped photo.
The 2024 NASCAR champion was seated next to him and you cropped him out… ????
— RaceSheetsDFS | Phill Bennetzen ❤️???? (@RaceSheetsDFS) January 31, 2024
What about @Blaney ??? The reigning series champion sitting next to him????
— Michael Deitch (@MichaelDeitch33) January 31, 2024
The 2023 Cup CHAMPION is sitting right next to him and y’all couldn’t have included him too? I know Bubba attracts lots of new fans and that’s awesome, but he’s won like 2 races… @Blaney is sitting right damn there and is defending CHAMPION…
— Turnbow????⚫️ (@belac327) January 31, 2024
I can see @Blaney shirt
— Scott Jackson (@Ausky66) January 31, 2024
They cropped out the NASCAR Cup Series Champion
— Tyler Kangas (@tykangas30) January 31, 2024
gimme the full pic with blaney
— nat (@natalieee_29) January 31, 2024
you cropped out the 2023 NCS champion lol
— Exit 261 (@Exit261DB) January 31, 2024
You didn’t fancy keeping @Blaney in the shot?
He’s only the @NASCAR champion…— The Hard Compound (@TheHardCompound) January 31, 2024
how yall gonna crop out the champion
— abby (@girlieonthegrid) January 31, 2024
The Nascar champion @Blaney is sitting next to him, and you guys really cropped him out???
— Justin McLucas (@J_Mac1287) January 31, 2024
And the obligatory Bubba Smollett comment:
Bubba Smollett
— Vin (@Vinny290) January 31, 2024
At least the jumbotron got it right…
And shoutout one more time to Ryan’s fiancée, Gianna.