Hank Azaria has bad blood with Taylor Swift.
The actor railed against the pop star’s presence at the NBA Finals Game 4 Wednesday night while name-dropping all the A-list New York Knicks fans rejected from Madison Square Garden’s celebrity row — himself included.
“I’ll tell you the one [person] that bothered me was Taylor Swift,” the “Simpsons” star said on the “Dan Le Batard Show” Thursday. “Come on.”
Azaria complained, “I know she’s the hugest thing in the world, but we had to sit with her all through the NFL [to watch fiancé Travis Kelce] and now she’s at the Garden. Come on.”
The 62-year-old, who doubled down on being “tired of” the songwriter, slammed Swift for taking up four courtside seats for herself, a security guard and pals Este Haim and Alana Haim.
Azaria, notably, got comped seats to watch the New York-based team’s historic win against the San Antonio Spurs — but was “way up in what they call the Cisco Suites, which are, like, the ceiling.”
He claimed DJ Questlove, “Office” alum Rainn Wilson, actor Ed Burns, model Christy Turlington, “Succession” alum Jeremy Strong and MLB player Aaron Judge were all also “stuck … up in the rafters.”
Azaria noted that “you don’t know from the Garden if you’re going to get in until that day” — unless “you’re Ben Stiller or Tracy Morgan” or Spike Lee, who he “think[s] actually pays” — because “there’s such high demand.”
Since the Emmy winner “didn’t make the cut” for Game 3 on Monday, he bought “outrageously expensive” Game 4 tickets that ultimately went to two of his friends as an “extravagant gift” once Azaria found out about his free seats.
When Azaria saw his suite, he regretted giving the “great seats” to his pals but “couldn’t switch with them.”
Nevertheless, the Tony nominee was able to watch the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history, with the Knicks beating the spurs 107 to 106.
“When they were making this strange, gradual, limpy comeback all through the second half of the game, I was too nervous to commit to the reality that it might be happening to yell out loud about it,” he recalled. “I just stood there with my hands on my head with my mouth agape not wanting to breathe too much.”
In addition to Swift and the Haim sisters, Mariska Hargitay, Adam Sandler, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner and more stars sat courtside.
Azaria isn’t the only person publicly bashing Swift, with Charlamagne Tha God requesting the “Welcome to New York” singer “get the eff out of” the arena in a brutal diss.
Dave Portnoy, for his part, ranted about how “sick” he is of the Grammy winner while savagely blasting Sydney Sweeney, Jerry Seinfeld and more “obnoxious” attendees.
Swift, notably, is set to marry to Kelce at MSG next month.
While the Kansas City Chiefs player, 36, was at minicamp and couldn’t join his partner at Wednesday’s Knicks game, he flew to New York City the following day to attend her Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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