{"id":852520,"date":"2026-08-12T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852520\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:56:15","slug":"james-76ers-visit-knicks-as-part-of-nba-opening-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852520\/","title":{"rendered":"James, 76ers visit Knicks as part of NBA opening slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sports-basketball-default.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"sports-basketball-default\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">THE New York Knicks will tip off the 2026-27 in style, raising their championship banner on Oct. 20 ahead of their home game against LeBron James and the new-look Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The star-studded affair that also includes Philadelphia\u2019s Jaylen Brown and New York\u2019s Jalen Brunson at Madison Square Garden is the middle game of three contests on the opening day of the season. The Boston Celtics will visit the Detroit Pistons at 3 p.m. ET, while Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs will host the Oklahoma City at 9:30 p.m. ET in a rematch of the Western Conference finals. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE New York Knicks will tip off the 2026-27 in style, raising their championship banner on Oct. 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,74093,85],"class_list":["post-852520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-reuters","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852520","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=852520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}