Ben Stiller concerned his Knicks anxiety might be a Mitchell Robinson jinx
First, the good news: Ben Stiller may know the cause of Mitchell Robinson's foul shooting woes.
The bad news? The 'Zoolander' star thinks he may be to blame.
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'Fat Joe and I see each other at games,' Stiller said on 'Don, Hahn & Rosenberg' on Wednesday before the shocking 138-135 overtime loss to the Pacers in Game 1.
'He was telling me that there are games that I stress him out too much. That he sees me across the court and is like 'Oh, Ben, you're stressing me out. I see your face and I see you worrying.' I started to feel like, Wait a minute, I'm affecting Fat Joe's experience of this game? We're all in this together. I had no idea.'
Leave it to fellow Celebrity Row staple Tracy Morgan to put it into context.
'I started to get self-conscious that maybe I'm affecting the players because I'm not putting out a more confident front or something,' Stiller said. 'Tracy Morgan was saying 'The players sense when we're stressed out, and you can't let them know that we're stressed out.''
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'Now we got to the bottom of why Mitchell Robinson missed all those free throws!' co-host Peter Rosenberg said. 'He kept looking over you!
Ben Stiller attends Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers.
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'Exactly!' Stiller said. 'Which is ironic for Tracy to be saying that, given his history…'
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Morgan famously vomited courtside and was taken out of the Garden via wheelchair due to what he later said was food poisoning.
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Whatever issues Stiller may have, they didn't keep him away from Game 1 against the Pacers on Monday and sitting through the Knicks' epic collapse.
Teams have employed a 'Hack-a-Mitch' strategy so far in the playoffs, capitalizing on the center's postseason struggles — he's made just 18 of his 48 free-throw attempts for a pitiful 37.5% success rate through 13 games.
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He missed both attempts Wednesday night.
Mitchell Robinson shooting a free throw against the Celtics.
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Stiller did give props to 'true blue, real-deal' Knicks fan Timothee Chalamet, whom he traveled to Detroit with for first-round games against the Pistons.
'He lives and breathes it,' Stiller said of his fellow actor.
Chalament was among those with a front-row seat Wesdnesday night, joined by the likes of Stiller, Livvy Dunne, Martha Stewart, Jon Hamm, Susie Essman, Larry David, and, of course, Morgan.
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