He didn’t score any points with her — but who can blame him!
A Brooklyn woman went viral after she was stood up by her blind date, who blew her off at the last minute after snagging Knicks playoff tickets.
Sarah Stone arrived at Café Carmellini in NoMad an hour early for her 6 p.m. date earlier this month, settling in and ordering a glass of wine while she waited for the man.
It also happened to be Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals at Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks played the Philadelphia 76ers.
Suddenly, her phone lit up with a message.
“He texted me and said, ‘Don’t kill me,’” she told The Post.
Once she saw his ominous words, she decided to call him.
“He pretty much said, ‘Hey, so, my boy, he got me tickets to the Knicks game. So I’m not gonna be able to make it,’” she recalled.
“I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? I’m already here. I’m having a cocktail. I was looking forward to seeing you.’ But he was like, ‘Yeah, but it’s the playoffs and we got some good tickets.’”
Stone then asked if she could tag along for the game, which the Knicks ultimately won 108-102.
“I was like, ‘OK, so are you gonna take me with you? Ask him for an extra ticket!’ Cause I wanted to go. And he was like, ‘No, I’m his plus one.’”
The man, whom she initially connected with through a mutual friend, then apologized, asking to reschedule and offering to pay for her drink, but the damage was already done.
“He was like, ‘I’m sorry, please let me make it up to you. Let’s reschedule. I’ll send you money for your cocktail,’” she said.
“But I was like, ‘No.’ Because I was pissed off.”
After the disappointing call, she decided to film the now-viral video from her seat at the restaurant.
“I was looking cute and I needed to vent to somebody, because I was like, ‘Can y’all believe this?’”
She was shocked when it went so viral — with even the Knicks’ official page commenting, “Forgive him please.”
“Spike Lee commented, [former Knick] J.R. Smith,” Stone added.
Most agreed with the man, saying they wouldn’t give up the once-in-a-lifetime tickets either.
“He got his priorities straight,” one wrote, while another added, “He made the right choice.”
Others thought his decision showed good character.
“Girl, those are actually green flags! It shows he has commitment and loyalty,” one said.
Some joked that she needed a reality check.
“She think she bigger than the KNICKS?!?!” one asked.
“Man if Kylie Jenner can get left at the Met Gala for the Knicks game, so can you,” someone else said, referring to when Timothée Chalamet chose to attend Game 1 of the Knicks-76ers series instead of attending the star-studded event with his girlfriend.
“Everybody’s Team Knicks. They hate me,” Stone said, laughing at all the comments.
“But it’s like you just feel played and stupid. I was literally there. Did my hair, makeup, got a cute little outfit.”
Stone revealed that she actually did end up going out with the Knicks fan who stood her up.
They met up two days later — but she wasn’t impressed.
“Nah. I wasn’t interested. I was already turned off and he wasn’t that cute,” she said, laughing.
Her video caught the attention of many other men who have asked her out — but so far, she hasn’t accepted any offers.
“I got a lot of DMs saying, like, ‘I would have never done that to you,’ ‘How about I take you to a Knicks game,’ or ‘You’re too pretty for that,’ or ‘I hate the Knicks anyway.’”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
