Mr Beast gives Knicks fan $10,000 prize for epic half-court shot YouTube star and internet philanthropist Jimmy \u201cMr Beast\u201d Donaldson wasn\u2019t impressed by a New York Knicks fan\u2019s prize for making an impressive half-court basket, and decided to pitch in himself. Mr Beast is known across social media as the internet\u2019s \u201cGood Samaritan,\u201d using his status as a top YouTuber and his own brand deals to gift funds to everyone from waitresses to Twitch streamers and even pizza delivery men. However, the YouTuber took things to the next level via Twitter on January 11, after taking notice of a viral Tweet from Sports Center. The Tweet included a video of a Knicks fan popping off after making a jaw-dropping half-court shot during a break in a game, with his prize being $1,000 in scratch-off tickets. This Knicks fan was hyped to win $1,000 in scratchers with this half-court shot \ud83d\udcb0\ud83c\udf89 pic.twitter.com\/J815BM537c \u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 11, 2020 It doesn\u2019t look like Mr Beast was too dazzled by the fan\u2019s prize as he was his skills, though, as he went on to offer the man a whopping $10,000 for making the shot. \u201c$1k in scratch off tickets?\u201d Mr Beast Tweeted in reply. \u201cTell this man to dm me and I\u2019ll send him $10,000 for hitting that shot.\u201d $1k in scratch off tickets? Tell this man to dm me and I\u2019ll send him $10,000 for hitting that shot ? \u2014 MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) January 11, 2020 Amid the jokes from his own crew that they were, in fact, the fan, the actual man in question managed to see the Tweet and replied to Mr Beast \u2014 leading to a hilarious conversation between the two. Read More: PewDiePie explains why BTS fans are \u201cinsane\u201d – \u201cWhat\u2019s up stop playing!\u201d the man, a photographer going by the handle \u201cAPTheAngel,\u201d responded. https:\/\/twitter.com\/APTheAngel\/status\/1216096172466757632?s=20 Mr Beast wasn\u2019t going to throw out cash without proof, though, and asked the Knicks fan for evidence it was actually him before proceeding. In response, APTheAngel sent the YouTuber a humorous video of himself, saying, \u201cHere\u2019s a video of me walking down the street. Do I look like the dude? I dunno, what kind of proof do you need?\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/APTheAngel\/status\/1216107339385798656?s=20 Luckily for the fan, it seems that he\u2019s scored a major cash reward for his viral half-court victory \u2014 a much better prize in place of scratch-off tickets, although he has yet to confirm if he\u2019s actually received Mr Beast\u2019s $10k at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Beast gives Knicks fan $10,000 prize for epic half-court shot YouTube star and internet philanthropist Jimmy \u201cMr Beast\u201d Donaldson wasn\u2019t impressed by a New York Knicks fan\u2019s prize for making an impressive half-court basket, and decided to pitch in himself. Mr Beast is known across social media as the internet\u2019s \u201cGood Samaritan,\u201d using his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}