NYPD confuses Tyler Kolek for a fan jumping the barricade
In all honesty he does just look like a dude
Can confirm he’s a dude
I’m a dude
He’s a dude
She’s a dude
We are ALL dudes
HEY
Your lipstick stains
On the front lobe of my
The cop just needs to chili his willy
We are here. They are there. We will be here. They will be there
It makes me sad as a 90s kid that there’s probably kids and young adults ITT that won’t understand this reference 😭
Are there any other DUDES I should know about?
Meow
Hey dude
6’2”, white, doesn’t play much. Ya, I don’t blame them lol.
Yeah he played like 50 total minutes in the playoffs over 19 games , he’s a shorter normal looking white guy who is the 10th man on the roster and he looks like just some random dude
I seriously don’t blame the cop for thinking he’s some tiktok guy or YouTuber who hopped the fence
This isn’t like Masai when they won the title. The cop just literally didn’t know who this normal looking guy was
6’2 “shorter white guy”
Cries in 5’5 😭
He’s NBA short, not real life short.
Please don’t cry Muggsy Bogues
Don’t forget about spud webb
huh you could use the same “just didn’t know who the guy was” logic with Masai
You should probably know who the GM of the team is.
You’ll never hear me defending cops typically, but they’re not obligated to be fans of the team or basketball.
If they are working security details, they are encouraged to know the detail
Agreed. I can’t identify a lot of GMs but I certainly expect a security detail to know them.
Fair point
Masai had credentials on, though. If the cop would have waited 5 seconds, he would have seen that. Instead he pushed him then cried that his dick didn’t work anymore.
Some say he’s the Michael Jordan of Rhode Island
Wait is he really from RI. Never seen him talked about, surprised the local news weren’t mentioning it like the coach for the Celtics.
From Cumberland!
dude’s really got it made, a $2 million a year contract and unrecognizable. Gets to live a pro athlete life and not be bombarded at all. Shit, I used to daydream about being a star like Kobe or MJ but now in my adult years I’m daydreaming about being a Tyler Kolek.
Racial profiling fr
Driving while black -> Walking while white
they do all kinda look the same
I remember seeing something about The Dream Team ‘92, and John Stockton said he got to just see The Olympics and greater Barcelona as a civilian with his family, because no one recognized him as an athlete.
https://youtu.be/CEmacNvCj4A?is=0LUNuqLgoTO7yESf
I mean, I with security on this one… I don’t see many Kolek jerseys being worn by the crowd.
Bro I was there. 80% of people had Kolek jerseys on
I’m just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
“Sir, you’re not 6’8”, please step behind the barricade.”
He does have the TikTok prankster look
Ethan Bradberry
mommy makeout day
Wrong guy that’s prank invasion lol. A much more cringe version
Easy mistake to make 😅
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Duh duh duh. Duh duh duh. Let the boys be boys.
IMETHANBRADBERRY
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard of in a long time….
SLAMMIN
i wont lie that is definitely me
That’s a name I have not heard in a long long time
SLLLLAAMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIINNNNNNN
IM ETHAN BRADBURY
Lol there’s about to be 10 Tyler Kolek impersonators try to sneak in to the parade
Remind me of the guy who looked like Austin Reaves entering through the player entrance. (I think they perma banned him after he released a video about it though)
I’m pretty sure there was a Klay Thompson look a like did the same thing.
Edit: found it https://youtu.be/qtcDSwoxOUw?is=9ECiBsoSPHRXQCbr
Outstanding
“I snuck into the Knicks Championship parade disguised as a player”
“Social experiment” vibe yeah lol
Even the skip looks mischievous
Can’t blame the cops, could have easily thought he was a random finance bro
The skipping doesn’t help.
racially profiled lmao
A TiK Toker definitely could have gotten away trying to impersonate him
Bro saw the height and skin color and said “yeah no shot he’s a player” 💀
Little do they know boy can hoop.
He won us the prestigious NBA Cup
WHO’D THEY BEAT FOR THE CUP, CHUCK
#THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS, 6-2 IN THE SEASON ERNEH
Them big women down there
the hair doesn’t help either tbh
And the skipping. These boys love the skipping.
I legitimately believe skipping is a great form of fast locomotion. The trade-off between it and running is that the skip motion requires more explosive energy in an individual step, but there’s a longer recovery time between steps.
As a skipper, I agree. It’s also fun as hell.
damn, Tyler prolly not used to racism like that
First time New York cops ever singled out a white guy.
Nah they did it to Ron Baker back in the day as well lol. I guess that might have jsut been MSG security
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PAW4mLbiDxk haha
As a white kid in the bronx during stop and frisk I was stopped everyday going to school because the cops couldn’t comprehend that I would be in Bronx but for any other reason then to buy drugs 😭
It’s rare now, but I’m pretty sure the NYPD discriminated against ethnic white immigrants and diaspora in the past.
True. Back when Irish and Italians weren’t considered white.
Idk why Reddit removed my post?
Edit: It was automatically removed. Flagged as a break of rule 1. I didn’t promote any hate. I just stated how low people viewed the Irish. Maybe it thought it was my own viewpoint? Whack.
Probably some auto-mod that picks up certain words.
Lmao saw that I assumed you posted “[ Removed by Reddit ]” yourself as a meta joke about the kind of response that might get. Did not realize it was a legit mod action.
Nope. I added further context.
I can be funny and clever, but I’m not that funny and clever I’m afraid.
“Aren’t you in the wrong neighborhood, boy?”
To be fair the reason he doesn’t look like an nba’er isnt because of his hue, more so his stature and style
I was thinking this too. If he’s 6’10”, he probably doesn’t get stopped.
It’s anti-Slavic bigotry!
Damn!
Sometimes, it do be your own people
Reminds me of when an NFL player who was 5’7” 135 lbs couldn’t get into the training facility because security didn’t believe him, wish I could remember his name
Ron Baker got denied entry to MSG before a game when he rolled in with his Hyundai Elantra.
So did Jeremy Lin during the height of linsanity.
Lin tells a hilarious story of when he first joined the Knicks and ran into Amari Stoudemire in the hotel and he made a face like “oh shit this crazy fan got in”
holy shit the imagery in my head. i’m so fkng high. this shits funny as fuck.
Nice, practical car. I’ve owned two and have had no issues with either.
I looked it up. He actually drove a Hyundai Sonata. I deeply regret this error.
Piece of shit junker. Owned one for a couple years, never again.
L take the 2002-2006 sonata is a underrated gem of a car
I was about to say, no shot Ron Baker fit his 6’4” ass into an Elantra, I used to struggle at barely six feet.
Ron Baker, Shot Maker?
You mean Eagles punt returner Britain Covey? He’s like 5’-7”, 170. His rookie year he got elevated from the practice squad on gameday, didn’t have the “active roster” parking pass, and the security people at the stadium were like sorry dude park a mile away.
No it was the 90’s and guy was legit under 140 lbs
I can’t find even a single player ever that was less than 140 pounds, let alone the exact one you’re talking about. I think your memory is failing you more here than you thought
I think it was just a training camp guy and this was a while ago
Also, Gerald McNeil confirms his typical game day weight was in the 120’s, but it wasn’t him either.
It’s Darren sproles
Wayne Chrebet who played for the New York Jets
I think it’s an older one that’s harder to search, I think it was a DB for the Giants in the 90’s
real lunch pail guy that one
Lin said he always got stopped by NBA personnel cause he was Asian.
Jeremy Lin was stopped from getting on the team bus by security guard
Happened to Dustin Pedroia in the World Series against the Rockies. He told the security guard to ask Jeff Fucking Francis who he was - he had taken Francis yard the previous night.
An Eagles punt return guy Covey
New York City cops, they ain’t too smart - Julian Casablancas
Let’s be real. Half those fans high fiving him didn’t know who he was either lmao
Someone on the Knicks sub just asked why people booed Deuce McBride
“I was saying Boo-euce”
That’s fucking hilarious lol. Reminds me of when my mom asked why us Panthers fans always booed Luke Kuechly.
Now imagine if instead of your mom, it was a “fan” asking why during the victory parade lmao, they literally had to have not watched a single game this year to not have heard the chant
Say sike right now.
Kolek’s a fan favorite so most would recognize him.
A fan favorite to the kinds of people watching in January. Which a good chunk of people at the parade weren’t doing
How dare you. He’s the BBQ chicken guy who roasted St. Johns when he was at Marquette.
This is on the organizers. Parade participants should be credentialed.
New York City cops, they ain’t too smart - Julian Casablancas me
Catching anyone but people putting cars on fire
Heems - NYC Cops is a banger (Strokes cover)
This was a no win situation. Tyler looked like those broccoli hair generation dweebs and everyone knows 90% of NYPD are crayon eating high school dropouts.
The fat cop was so excited to grab him and start jerking him around too
Pause
Nono. Keep going. Almost done.
yah crowds were a little rowdy but NYPD truly had no clue today lol. still had fun tho
everyone knows 90% of NYPD are crayon eating high school dropouts.
so true lol
can’t even fault them for this lmao
Racial profiling is crazy though
I mean, 9⁄10 thats a fan who hopped a barrier. This was the 1⁄10 instance where it was an NBA player running around away from the team
This is the same type of logic cops use btw
I mean, yea. I’m all for hating cops who abuse their authority though this is understandable.
Masai being confronted was not understandable. Dude had a suit and a badge. CLEARLY not a fan
His point is that police shouldn’t look at people and decide they have 9⁄10 chance of commiting a crime based off nothing because that’s just profiling lol
They’re both wrong
Put some respect on Big East Player of the Year and Big East Champion Tyler Kolek 😤
MF Michael Jordan of Vermont or something
Rhode Island. The Michael Jordan of Vermont is Taylor Coppenrath, BURLINGTON STREETS WON’T FORGET!
Yeah and if he could read this, he’d be pissed!
Lmaooooo
This is like cops stopping PK Subban at a hockey event or something lol
(Getting dragged away) “No, no, no, I can hoop! I can hoooop!”
Cop was looking around like “The fuck? That guy?”
God forbid a white boy have a lil motion 🙄
Lucky he didn’t get Sefolosha’d
What happened to Sefolosha?
Cops broke his leg in NY and could’t play in the playoffs with the Hawks I think.
Cop got him. Rip
I didnt even know he was sick…
Lmao me and Tyler Kolek always getting mixed up like this😂😂😂
It he could read this he would be very upset
“Hey what’s Vanilla Ice doing here”
The one context where the cops will actually racially profile the white guy
Bro looks like a normal dude can’t blame them
“But I’m on the team!”
“Yeah, yeah, tell it to the judge”
Reminds me of the story Austin Reaves told on a pod, where security stopped him from going to the bench and AD is just busting out laughing
Atlanta police officer did the same to Tyler Matzek at the Braves World Series parade
Bo Byram with the ‘22 Avalanche too
Not one sorry either smh
The John Stockon piece.
Hey cut them some slack. They’ve only been fans for about a week
Cops be like you are only 6’2 and white no way you’re a basketball player 😂
NYPD and racial profiling, name a more iconic duo
NYPD, Stop and Frisk. Name a more iconic trio!
Talk about profiling lmaooo
They didn’t take one second to look around and ask a fucking Knicks staff member?
Facts, they should’ve let him run straight at the Knicks while they took a few moments to track down a staff member.
They probably wouldn’t know him either
and what if it was actually a random person?
“Get this twitch streamer out of here!”
Same thing happened to former NY Knick Ron Baker lol
From the B/R article 10 years ago: “The first couple of times I pulled up to the MSG parking lot and told the security guard I was a player, the guy did a double time and seemed skeptical. But now when they see my Hyundai Sonata roll in, they know who it is and that business is coming.”
He looks like a normal dude so I’m not surprised
They stopped him because he looked like anyone else. Didn’t punch him or mace him and let him go immediately.
Compared to the usual bad examples of policing - this is like the white guy gentle experience.
i’m not pro police but this is just bias of internet virality.
most police encounters even if they’re not perfect end peacefully and not with assault or mace… no one out here sharing videos where nothing goes wrong so bias like this builds, but objectively that’s the norm with police encounters, regardless of race.
Didn’t this once happen to Jeremy Lin when he tried to enter the players entrance at MSG or something?
Ngl I had to look up who Tyler Kolek was. I thought this was an actor or something.
Were you thinking Timothee Chalamet? Lol
My question is, the dude ran past several other officers, now what in that cops small brain thought, oh shit maybe thats a fan that somehow passed all these other cops who decided not to move a muscle?
He was running around with his smartphone the entire time, looking like a fan.
This shit is hilarious.
For those who don’t know the White Shirts are notorious for being the shittiest part of the NYPD. Not shocked that one of them did this
Must be a Tyler thing because when the Braves won the World Series in 2021 Tyler Matzek got off the float and was the cops harassed him too.
Jack Black was bamboozled
Don’t ever get comfortable Tyler Kolek.
Hell I knew what he looked like and I’d do a double take
Who
Same thing happened to Bowen Byram when the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup in 2022.
These are the morons we have to deal with policing us.
Lmao.
this is so funny it’s like reverse racism haha
lol this happened to Bowen Byram when the Avs won the cup in 22 when he was handing out beers to people in the parade.
This parade has everything
Ok this is hilarious
Dude literally saved Christmas
Always crazy to me that Tyler Kolek is in the NBA. His dad was the resource officer at my high school, and back when he was like 9 my friends played against him, his brother, and his dad in a pickup game. My friends won and Tyler cried. It use to be a story he’d tell just because he beat the cop from our school, and now it’s a story he tells because he beat a future NBA champion.
Cool. What’s Tyler Kolek?