Scooter Braun sat behind Taylor Swift at the Knicks game and barely anyone noticed

Leigh BlickleyThu, June 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM UTC

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Scooter Braun; Taylor SwiftCredit: Jemal Countess/Getty; Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via GettyKey Points -

Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun were both at the Knicks–Spurs game on Wednesday.

The arch-enemies were seated pretty close to one another, though Swift was courtside.

Swift and Braun have had bad blood since he purchased her music catalog in 2019.

Taylor Swift had a grand old time sitting courtside at Game 4 of the NBA Finals, seemingly unfazed that Scooter Braun was parked behind her.

Swift attended the New York Knicks vs. San Antonio Spurs tilt at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as did her reputed enemy, Braun, who sat next to his girlfriend Sydney Sweeney a few rows up from the pop star and her friends.

The "I Knew I, I Knew You" singer wore a custom Knicks T-shirt, alongside Este and Alana Haim, and Mariska Hargitay, as she watched the home team make comeback history with their third win over the Spurs in the best-of-seven series.

Braun and Sweeney sat a few rows back to the left of Swift and co., and were ecstatic as they left the arena following the Knicks' victory.

"Greatest game of my entire life," Braun told reporters as he exited MSG, looking at a giggling Sweeney and saying, "she's the greatest Knicks charm of all time."

After alleged Swift fans savaged him in the comments of a Page Six social media post reporting his and Sweeney's unworthiness of courtside seats, Braun asked the outlet to "keep things positive."

"[Sydney] surprised me with tickets in the same section with my pops and my brother so I could share it with them," he explained. "Let's keep things positive and get one more! Greatest game of all time. Can't stop smiling."

Alana Haim, Swift, and Este Haim at the Knicks gameCredit: Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty

Former music manager Braun ignited a firestorm in 2019 after he paid a reported $300 million for Big Machine Records, Swift's former longtime label. With the purchase came the master recordings of all of Swift's songs recorded before she signed with Universal Music Group — including those from her albums Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), and Reputation (2017).

"Scooter has stripped me of my life's work," she alleged in a Tumblr post at the time. Swift also accused Braun, who managed the likes of Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Kanye West, of "incessant, manipulative bullying" during her career and expressed disbelief that her musical legacy was now "in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it."

The saga led Swift to rerecord four of her early albums, and release them as "Taylor's Version," in order to regain ownership of her music. Six years after Braun's purchase, Swift announced a huge business move: she bought back all six albums.

Swift published a lengthy letter to her official website in May 2025, in which she stated, "All the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me."

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"To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it," Swift added, noting that "the passionate support [fans] showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music."

She wrote, "I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now."

Braun, for his part, shared his take on the whole situation in a recent interview.

After year of silence, he insisted on the Second Thought podcast hosted by Suzy Weiss, "I don't know Taylor Swift."

"I think I've met her in my life three times. I have never had a substantial conversation with her in my life," Braun added.

Sydney Sweeney and Braun in May.Credit: TheStewartofNY/GC Images

He went on to discuss a time, before he purchased Swift's catalog, when he was invited to one of her private parties.

"She told me she had the utmost respect for me. I told her I had the most respect for her," he claimed. "You don't spend $300 million buying a label that she's on unless you're excited at the opportunity to work with her."

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Braun said he and Swift "never had any contact" throughout the process of his acquisition of Big Machine Records. So, when she then bashed him to her fans in the Tumblr post, he was "just as confused that this is part of my life as you are," he told Weiss.

Braun added of the epic, very public fallout that he "chose to learn and grow from it," and that he was "grateful for it at this point in my life."

"I will never truly understand that situation," he concluded. "I wish her nothing but the best."

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