{"id":720200,"date":"2026-06-07T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:40:10","slug":"knicks-warn-of-enhanced-security-with-trump-attending-game-3-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720200\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks warn of enhanced security with Trump attending Game 3 of NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Knicks are warning fans to bring as little as possible to Game 3 of the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-finals-knicks-spurs-65c3f996e65d1413ebc94fee2a2a81a2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Finals<\/a> and encouraging them to arrive at least two hours before tipoff as part of enhanced security measures with <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-nba-finals-knicks-780d3222ba38e4583374dea153f99c8d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump attending the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks said Saturday that a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyknicks\/status\/2063392493228511581?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">strict no-bag policy<\/a> will be in place and that there would be \u201cTSA-style screening procedures\u201d for fans when they enter Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a longtime Knicks fan who confirmed Friday that he would attend the first NBA Finals game in New York since 1999. He has already attended a number of major sporting events <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-presidential-travel-biden-first-six-months-c619e9e39f2f57081ce7d29c3f986acc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in his second term<\/a>, including the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-nfl-super-bowl-first-president-766c628f4ea3faf38d100e4f33f2ac8c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Super Bowl<\/a>, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-nascar-daytona-500-sports-20a1f0a75207ec57dfa4c58aa3934875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daytona 500<\/a> and <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ryder-cup-golf-bethpage-black-860b3728bd39bf5c10356c6612ccc456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Knicks said there would be no storage at MSG for prohibited items brought to the arena. A list of them is available at <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/prohibiteditems.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/prohibiteditems.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Knicks are warning fans to bring as little as possible to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,13228,2490,134,482,590,31647,2656,6778,1025,1026,1666,85,427,488],"class_list":["post-720200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-domestic-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-tv","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}