Vivek Ramaswamy failed to bum rush the Knicks' championship celebration
The notorious conman paid roughly $60,000 for courtside seats to the Cleveland Cavaliers' blowout playoff loss to the New York Knicks. Things only got more embarrassing from there.
The notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy celebrated “date night” in Cleveland on Monday night, watching the New York Knicks tombstone the hometown Cavaliers in Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
Ramaswamy sat courtside with his wife, Ohio State doctor Arapova Ramaswamy, in courtside seats that cost Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial candidate at least $60,000 for the privilege.
To show his pride, he appeared to have purchased a still-creased, ill-fitting t-shirt from the gift store, which, in his defense, is better than he appeared at an Ohio State football tailgate wearing a bootleg jersey in 2025.
Spending 90% of Ohio’s median income for a front-row seat to watch “your team” get smoked by 37 points would make most sports fans catatonic for the next 72 hours.
For Ramaswamy, allegedly worth north of $2 billion, that’s only .00003 percent of his fortune. And he’s not much of a Cavs fan, either, as evidenced by his attempting to gladhand with villainous Knicks owner James Dolan and the victorious Knicks players after the game.
A private security source with direct knowledge of the incident told The Rooster that Ramaswamy attempted to breeze into the Knicks’ restricted area after the contest, declaring that he was “running for governor of Ohio and wanted to welcome everyone to Ohio.”
Ramaswamy’s efforts were instantly rebuffed, with a Knicks security officer telling him to leave as he “didn’t have access to the area.”
Visibly flustered, Ramaswamy slinked away with his much smaller private security guard in tow.
Ramaswamy already had probable cause to know that he didn’t have that kind of juice. Before the game, Ramaswamy attempted to park near Cavs ownership and players but was turned away by arena security.
The final blow came from an unexpected place when New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, mockingly reposted Ramaswamy’s date night declaration that the Cavs would be coming “all the way back” from a 3-0 deficit.
