Topics: Kendall Jenner, Social Media, Super Bowl, Celebrity, Basketball
Kendall Jenner has been playfully trolled by her basketball playing ex, Devin Booker, after she shared her prediction for the upcoming Super Bowl.
The flirtation between the 30-year-old model and the 29-year-old Phoenix Suns player unfolded on Instagram, where Booker commented on a clip from her appearance on Wednesday's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In light of her recent gambling commercial, Jenner was asked live on air for her pick in the upcoming Super Bowl LX, which will see the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots. But rather than choose herself, she chose to 'phone a friend', Tom Brady.
The seven-time championship ring winner gave a detailed breakdown of each team, but in the end, Jenner said she would just go with her gut and pick the 'underdogs', the Patriots.
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But Booker commented on her pick and marital status, saying: "I bet a million the Seahawks get that ring before you do."
Firing back at her ex, who she stopped dating in 2022 but has reportedly been on-and-off-again with over the years, Jenner appeared to playfully ask about his recent injury, replying: "How’s the ankle?"
Setting online rumor mills whirring, Booker flirted back that she should 'come rub it'.
This back and forth came after Jenner appeared to mock NBA players in her Super Bowl ad for gambling firm Fanatics Sportsbook, which referenced the supposed 'Kardashian Curse' that makes basketball players 'worse' when they date a member of the family.
"Haven’t you heard? The internet says I’m cursed," Jenner says in the commercial, where she burns a pile of players' jerseys. "Any basketball player who dates me kinda hits a rough patch."
This advert was shared widely across the Kardashian-Jenner family's social media, with praise heaped on Jenner for her funny delivery and clap back to conspiracy theorists.
However, while many thought this playful banter between Jenner and Booker was a possible sign that they might be back together, internet sleuths pieced together some clues that indicate the flirtation might have been purely business.
Get your tinfoil hats on, because the page that posted the Jimmy Fallon clip that Jenner and Booker flirted under was that of Michael Rubin, who founded Fanatics Sportsbook.
A common tactic of many of these online gambling businesses to get people's attention on social media is to attach to drama and gossip, in a subtle advertising technique that boosts their profile.
And to connect the dots a little further, Booker has also been sponsored by Fanatics recently and made posts about their business on his social media, as Reddit sleuths pointed out amid the relationship speculation.
One user even claimed that they 'wouldn’t be surprised if this was an undisclosed ad since he posted about the same company she is promoting'.
