Since our last coverage of Trump's Game 3 appearance on June 8, the game has been played — and lost — and the aftermath is uglier than the final score.

The Game: Spurs 115, Knicks 111

Victor Wembanyama dropped 32 points and the San Antonio Spurs snapped the Knicks' 13-game playoff win streak, cutting New York's series lead to 2-1. According to Fox News, Wembanyama also put his hand on Jalen Brunson's head and pushed him down — with referees looking the other way.

Knicks coach Mike Brown didn't let that slide. After the game, Fox News reported Brown publicly ripped the officiating, citing a stark free throw discrepancy between the two teams. Whether the refs or Wembanyama won the game is debatable. The Knicks are no longer in cruise control.

Trump's Take vs. Reality

Trump attended with his granddaughter Kai Trump, Knicks owner James Dolan, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to BBC News.

When a camera showed Trump on the arena's big screens during the national anthem, the crowd booed. Clearly. Loudly. According to BBC News, Trump told reporters afterward: "It was, I think, mostly cheers. It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic."

It was not mostly cheers.

Trump was born in Queens and has a genuinely complicated history with his hometown. New York City is not Trump country. The reception should not have surprised anyone.

Hours in Line, Streets Locked Down

Regular ticketholders — people who paid real money to watch their team — waited in lines stretching more than two city blocks because of Secret Service protocols, according to BBC News. Hours. Outside. To see a basketball game. The fans bore the hidden cost of a presidential sports outing.

The Watch Party That Went Sideways

The chaos wasn't only inside MSG. Fox News reported that a Knicks watch party in Manhattan devolved into massive brawls, with NYPD deploying pepper spray to break up the crowd. The city had already canceled an official watch party over Trump's visit — MSG fired back publicly, according to Fox News.

Fans couldn't get into the arena on time, the street party turned into a street fight, and the Knicks lost anyway. That was a rough Monday for New York.

The Stephen A. Smith Sideshow

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith called Trump's attendance "selfish and narcissistic" before the game, according to Fox News. After the Knicks lost, Trump took a shot at Smith's previously floated presidential ambitions, also per Fox News.

Both men are playing to their audiences. Neither is talking about basketball at this point. The game itself becomes a footnote when presidential politics and sports collide.

Whoopi Goldberg, not exactly a Trump ally, reportedly defended Trump's right to attend the game, per Fox News. Even in deeply blue New York, some people separate "I don't like the guy" from "he can't watch a basketball game."

What the Left Coverage Gets Wrong

BBC framed the booing as the defining moment of the night, which plays well for a certain audience. The booing happened during the anthem — a moment when crowd noise is complicated regardless of who's on the jumbotron.

What the Right Coverage Gets Wrong

Fox News coverage bent over backwards to portray the scene as ambiguous or even positive for Trump. It wasn't. The man got booed in his hometown at a major sporting event. That's newsworthy. Calling it "a much different reaction than the CFP" doesn't change what happened at MSG on Monday.

What Comes Next

The series is 2-1, Knicks still in the driver's seat. Game 4 is next. Wembanyama is 22 years old and just had a 32-point Finals performance. The Spurs are not out of it.

New York's real fans — the ones who stood in line for two hours, missed tip-off, and watched their team blow a chance to go up 3-0 — deserve focus on the basketball.

The Knicks haven't won a title since 1973. That's 53 years. A presidential visit and a brawl in the streets won't change that. The next game does matter.