New York City will allow a watch party outside Madison Square Garden for Game 1 of the N.B.A. finals on Wednesday, a sudden reversal after it had declined to permit such gatherings, a spokesman for MSG Sports, the group that owns the Knicks, confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The parties had been canceled after multiple arrests and general chaos outside the arena last week when the Knicks won Game 4 of their previous series, sending them to their first finals in 27 years.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are playing away on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the finals. Fans have been eager to watch the team as close as possible to the Garden, one of basketball\u2019s best-known venues, often called the mecca. But tickets for a watch party inside the stadium sold out within an hour on Monday.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n
Jonah E. Bromwich contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City will allow a watch party outside Madison Square Garden for Game 1 of the N.B.A.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[222,43405,9,1104,56,63,65,64,30355],"class_list":["post-253847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-midtown-area-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-police-department-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}