Remember that time Laura Dern (might've possibly) hallucinated a vision of Baby Yoda at a basketball game? Well, Tyra Banks' recent encounter with furries at a Knicks-Nets NBA matchup just added a mountain of credibility to that scenario.
The 50-year-old supermodel and America's Next Top Model icon was spotted fending off two giant furry critters while seated courtside at Tuesday night's game at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
![Tyra Banks at the Knicks-Nets game in Brooklyn on Tuesday night with the furries](https://ew.com/thmb/7MsXirbcR-Mfjl4SnQI926iU9oE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Tyra-Banks-Knicks-Nets-Basketball-Game-Furries-012524-1-74ee617d65f14d1b82d7d65f6d4b801a.jpg)
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Throughout the attack, Banks appears shocked, scared, exhausted, and excited — sometimes all at once — as the figures wage war. Cameras captured the events on the big screen at the game, while other cell phone footage from the crowd offers a different vantage point of the action.
But, why were the furries seated next to Banks at the game in the first place? A video by comedian Kareem Rahma offers further insight, as he documented the incident — which he called "the funniest s---" he's ever seen in his life — and shared it to his Instagram grid with a particular hashtag indicating that the post is an "#ad" for something.
Rahma's post shows an extended look at the chaos, which ends with security — or, at least, perhaps actors playing security — escorting the furries out of the arena.
“Dude, they were there for like 30 minutes, these two furries just sitting next to Tyra Banks all night," Rahma said in the video.
![Tyra Banks at the Knicks-Nets game in Brooklyn on Tuesday night with the furries](https://ew.com/thmb/n8O1JCbI9I7HcV4I84GdV4HIwPI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Tyra-Banks-Knicks-Nets-Basketball-Game-Furries-012524-ece7a43aff4241d6b28c213432511ba7.jpg)
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EW has reached out to Banks' representatives for more information on the model's melee with the furries.
Watch Banks fight off the furries in the video above.
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