{"id":723869,"date":"2026-06-08T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:06:12","slug":"watch-parties-canceled-as-police-tighten-security-at-n-b-a-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723869\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Watch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. Finals<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Watch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. FinalsPresident Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are expected to attend the N.B.A. Finals game 3 between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cTonight, will also bring a major presidential visit to Madison Square Garden. As you know by now, because of that visit and in coordination with the United States Secret Service, there will unfortunately be no watch party outside of Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the Finals, and no access to the immediate vicinity of M.S.G. without an authorized reason to be there.\u201d \u201cThese visible security measures are designed to provide both protection and reassurance to everyone attending the N.B.A. Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person in a white Patrick Ewing Knicks jersey walks through a gate.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/08met-knicks-wwk-qmzw-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>President Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are expected to attend the N.B.A. Finals game 3 between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>By Cynthia Silva<\/p>\n<p>June 8, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Watch Parties Canceled as Police Tighten Security at N.B.A. Finals transcript Back transcript Watch Parties&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,2490,12845,45376,590,36999,27604,1158,4206,85,24942,127439,5071],"class_list":["post-723869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-donald-trump","tag-knicks","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-nba","tag-nba-championship","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-security","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-stadiums-arenas","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723869","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=723869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}