Inside the Only Awards Event Where Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet Lose a Basketball Game

Teona Gherasim

What began as an awards season taping became a cheerleader-tunnel fever dream: unpolished conversation, real creative vulnerability, and a finale that left two A-listers thoroughly outplayed. It takes a precise strain of Los Angeles magic for a rainy Saturday night to end with Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet getting their asses handed to them in a high school gym. Officially billed as the Sandler x Chalamet Conversation and Pickup Basketball Event, it provided more than clever branding for