{"id":909873,"date":"2026-09-29T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909873\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:24:09","slug":"nova-knicks-to-appear-at-nova-nation-tip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909873\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Knicks to Appear at Nova Nation Tip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     VILLANOVA, Pa. \u2013 The Nova Knicks are coming home.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNew York Knicks standouts \u2013 and Villanova alums \u2013 Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, and Josh Hart \u2013 will appear at Sunday&#8217;s Nova Nation Tip-Off presented by Santander, it was announced today.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat trio helped lead the Knickerbockers to the franchise&#8217;s first National Basketball Association title in 53 years in June. Last weekend, Brunson served as the host of &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; and was joined on stage by teammates Hart and Bridges during his opening monologue.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs Wildcats, the trio played a major part in one of the most successful eras in program history. Bridges and Hart each was named winner of the Julius Erving Award as the nation&#8217;s top small forward. Brunson was the consensus 2017-18 national player of the year. Brunson and Bridges were two-time national champions while Hart was the leading scorer for the 2016 NCAA national champions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll three have had their Villanova jerseys retired.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAdmission to the season kickoff event in Finneran Pavilion for the 2026-27 Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Basketball seasons is free and open to the public. An autograph session featuring both current rosters begins at 6 p.m. The event begins at 7 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; VILLANOVA, Pa. \u2013 The Nova Knicks are coming home. \u00a0 New York Knicks standouts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-909873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909873","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=909873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}