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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Knicks Superfan Mariska Hargitay Finally Reveals Why Missed Game · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When the New York Knicks won the NBA championship a
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  Speaker 2: few months back, it seemed like every diehard celebrity Knicks
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  Speaker 2: fan made the trip to San Antonio for Game 5
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  Speaker 2: to witness it firsthand.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the biggest was nowhere to be seen.
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  Speaker 3: Mariska Hargitay. She is unquestionably amazing.
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  Speaker 4: A super fan, Jalen Brunson, the team's superstar point guard,
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  Speaker 4: says she's literally his favorite Knicks fan.
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  Speaker 5: But her fellow Knicks fans were wondering, if that's true,
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  Speaker 5: where was Mariska for Game 5? And she's finally telling
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  Speaker 5: Variety why she was MIA.
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  Speaker 3: The girl had to work.
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  Speaker 2: Her one-woman Broadway show, Every Brilliant Thing, had a performance
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  Speaker 2: at the same exact time. And since it's literally just
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  Speaker 2: her alone on stage, she kind of couldn't miss it,
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: She half-jokingly, half-seriously asked the stage manager if Daniel Radcliffe,
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  Speaker 1: who originated the role, could return for one night only.
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  Speaker 3: And that joke did not go over well.
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  Speaker 2: If you need any further proof of her allegiance to
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks, go back to Game 4, where Mariska was
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  Speaker 2: in attendance. She had a play performance that night as
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  Speaker 2: well and cut it short so she could literally run
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  Speaker 2: to MSG in time to sit on the floor and
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  Speaker 2: watch the game. Mariska hosts the primetime Emmys live on
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  Speaker 2: NBC on the 14th.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.