His shot banged off the rim.
Philadelphia 76ers’ forward Kelly Oubre Jr. lofted an insult at Madison Square Garden’s famed Celebrity Row, calling the stars who sit courtside fake fans — and the bold-faced names are firing back.
“They’re gonna give celebrities those $100,000 [worth of] free tickets just to be there and not care about the game. That’s what they do,” Oubre said at an April 19 news conference ahead of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, where the Knicks play the 76ers in Game 4 Sunday.
“He’s talking a little bit out of his ass there and he’s wrong, because they’re real fans,” “Sopranos” star Steve Schirripa told The Post.
“I don’t know who he’s talking about. The guys in the front row, they care. Tracy Morgan, a huge fan. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, myself, Matthew Modine, John McEnroe, Fat Joe, all fans. They probably know more about basketball than him, believe it or not.”
It might not always have been the case, but now “the fans in the front row are really fans,” said the Bensonhurst native, who believes he’s been to 300 games.
“I remember in the past, I’m going, ‘What is he doing here?’ The Knicks start winning some games and they come out, but not lately,” the actor added.
Another famous Knicks fan, Ben Stiller, who grew up on the Upper West Side, retorted to Oubre’s jab with a tweet: “Oh I think I care a lot more than you think that you thought I cared . . . Kelly Who-bre?”
“Good for him, Ben’s a New Yorker through and through,” Matthew Modine told The Post from his trailer on the Manhattan set of Netflix’s upcoming series “Zero Day,” also starring Robert DeNiro.
The “Oppenheimer” actor, who lives in Greenwich Village, estimates he’s been to well over 500 games since he moved to the Big Apple from his native Utah in 1979, when he was just 19.
“Sometimes I’ll go with some friends who might have tickets and sometimes I’m a guest of the Garden and they put me on the floor,” he explained.
Modine, 65, said he’s just as into the game even if he’s not given floor seats, unlike some A-Listers.
“I’m not particular. I think some celebrities feel that if they can’t have their feet on the wood, they feel slighted or insulted and I don’t care. I’m just happy to be there enjoying the experience.”
Schirripa, 66, has been a fan since he was 8 years old, but wasn’t able to attend games as a youngster.
“My family didn’t have any money for that,” he said.
However, when he was the captain of the basketball team at Brooklyn College, he would score cheap ducats in the nosebleeds.
“I would take my girl at the time or a date and it was two for one, like $6.50,” said Schirripa, who is currently filming “Blue Bloods.”
“I was at the very, very top. One time actually my back was to the wall.”
After he landed the role in “The Sopranos,” he “luckily got to sit much closer.”
“I always wondered back then, ‘How do you get those seats?'” he recalled.
Seeing his face on screen at the Garden doesn’t get old.
“To me, it’s still thrilling,” he said.
