{"id":254261,"date":"2026-06-03T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:00:15","slug":"nba-finals-nyc-lifts-ban-on-knicks-watch-party-outside-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254261\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals: NYC Lifts Ban on Knicks Watch Party Outside MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New York Knicks fans will once again be allowed to congregate outside Madison Square Garden to watch the team compete in the first game of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The New York Police Department granted a permit for the watch party outside of MSG ahead of Wednesday night\u2019s matchup against the San Antonio Spurs, according to Ryan Watson, a spokesperson for Madison Square Garden. The gatherings were popular during earlier rounds of the playoffs but had been suspended after rowdy fans made crowd control difficult. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks fans will once again be allowed to congregate outside Madison Square Garden to watch the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4709,3339,17,13453,7991,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,9416,1777,7990],"class_list":["post-254261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-central-park","tag-cities","tag-culture","tag-industries","tag-iphone","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-twitter-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254261","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=254261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}