Originally appeared on E! Online
Martha Stewart has tips for every occasion — and that now includes what to wear to a basketball game.
After all, the Martha Stewart Living founder revealed that Knicks player Jalen Brunson accidentally broke her toe during a game against the Indiana Pacers while she was wearing sandals courtside.
“Never, ever wear open-toed shoes to a good like that when you’re sitting on the floor,” Stewart emphasized on the Dec. 17 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “He stepped on my big toe. It was like in the last five minutes of the game with the Pacers.”
“Then they went into overtime, which made it even more painful because I couldn’t get up and leave to go take care of my toe,” she continued. “I knew it was broken.”
The 84-year-old recalled the moment at the May 21 game — where Ben Stiller and Timothée Chalamet were also in attendance — when Brunson caused a “Brunson fracture” as he fell into her lap.
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“He comes crashing down, sits on my lap and I grabbed his arm,” she explained to host Jimmy Fallon. “His arm was like icy cold. I thought, ‘He’s a basketball player. He should be sweaty.’ He wasn’t sweaty at all. He was cool as a cucumber.”
Stewart played it cool, too, however, adding, “He didn’t know he broke my foot, but he broke my foot.”
But she wasn’t going to let the 29-year-old go without calling a foul on the incident.
“I told his parents,” she playfully admitted. “I met his parents. They were laughing. They thought it was so funny.”
As for how Brunson compensated the cookbook author? She teased, “All I got out of it was a signed basketball for my grandchild.”
Despite the unfortunate incident at the game, where the Pacers bested the Knicks, Stewart will always be rooting for the New York-based team. In fact, she even took her grandson Truman to a game earlier in the year.
Donning a neon orange sweater in a crowd of gray and black outfits, the legendary homemaker quipped, “If you look hard enough, you see me — orange sweater — and soon-to-be 12-year-old Truman out for the night at Madison Square Garden.”
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