Ben Stiller concerned his Knicks anxiety might be a Mitchell Robinson jinx

First, the good news: Ben Stiller may know the cause of Mitchell Robinson’s foul shooting woes.The bad news? The “Zoolander” star thinks he may be to blame.“Fat Joe and I see each other at games,” Stiller said on “Don, Hahn & Rosenberg” on Wednesday before the shocking 138-135 overtime loss to the Pacers in Game 1.“He was telling me that there are games that I stress him out too much.That he sees me across the court and is like ‘Oh, Ben, you’re stressing me out.

I see your face and I see you worrying.’ I started to feel like, Wait a minute, I’m affecting Fat Joe’s experience of this game? We’re all in this together.I had no idea.”Leave it to fellow Celebrity Row staple Tracy Morgan to put it into context.“I started to get self-conscious that maybe I’m affecting the players because I’m not putting out a more confident front or something,” Stiller said.

“Tracy Morgan was saying ‘The players sense when we’re stressed out, and you can’t let them know that we’re stressed out.’”“Now we got to the bottom of why Mitchell Robinson missed all those free throws!” co-host Peter Rosenberg said.“He kept looking over you!“Exactly!” Stiller said.

“Which is ironic for Tracy to be saying that, given his history…”Morgan famously vomited courtside and was taken out of the Garden via wheelchair due to what he later said was food poisoning.Sports+ subscribers: Sign up for Inside the Knicks to get daily newsletter coverage and join Expert Take for insider texts about the series.Whatever issues Stiller may have, they didn’t keep him away from Game 1 against the Pacers on Monday and sitting through the Knicks’ epic collapse.Teams have employed a “Hack-a-Mitch” strategy so far in the playoffs, capitalizing on the center’s postseason struggles — he’s made just 18 of his 48 free-throw attempts for a pitiful 37.5% success rate through 13 games.He missed both attempts Wednesday night.Stiller did give props t...