{"id":187905,"date":"2026-05-09T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:34:10","slug":"knicks-fans-take-over-philadelphia-during-statement-game-3-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187905\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fans take over Philadelphia during statement Game 3 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the 76ers<\/a>\u2019 best efforts, they couldn\u2019t keep Knicks fans out of Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scores of Knicks supporters made the trek to Pennsylvania to see their team roll to a 108-94 Game 3 win<\/a> over the Sixers to take a 3-0 second-round series lead.<\/p>\n

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Not only were the blue-and-orange supporters cheering on the Knicks, but there were audible boos inside Xfinity Mobile Arena when 76ers star Joel Embiid<\/a> went to the foul line.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there were cheers when he missed a shot from the charity stripe.<\/p>\n

\"Timothee<\/p>\n

Timothee Chalamet smiles during the game during Round 2 Game
3 of the 2026 NBA Playoffs on May 8, 2026 at the Wells Fargo
Center in Philadelphia on May 8, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fans in the lower bowl were seen waving towels and chanting \u201cLet\u2019s go Knicks\u201d as the victory became inevitable in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

The group of fans, as they exited arena were yelling a few things in exultation, including a \u201cf\u2013k Embiid\u201d chant and \u201cKnicks in four.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much like celebrity row at Madison Square Garden, the stars and A-listers came down to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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That included Knicks superfans Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee and Fat Joe, who were all shown on the Amazon Prime broadcast with smiles as New York rolled in the second half.<\/p>\n

The 76ers, before Game 3, donated 500 tickets<\/a> for each of the remaining home playoff games this round in hopes of keeping their home, well, a home.<\/p>\n

\"Rapper<\/p>\n

Rapper Fat Joe watching the game in the fourth quarter. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Kelly Oubre<\/a> Jr., who led Philly with 22 points, was asked how his team handled the throngs of supporters for the visiting squad.<\/p>\n

He said that the arena was going to be loud no matter what and that\u2019s it up to his group to keep the focus on what matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could say something that could get clickbaited, but I\u2019m not. At the end of the day, we\u2019re the show on the court. We\u2019re not necessarily focused on the crowd, the things like that,\u201d Oubre said. \u201cObviously, we need it. We love it and we love our fans. But at the end of the day, we have to lock in on our task. We have to figure out our game plan, just have a tight huddle.<\/p>\n

\"Film<\/p>\n

Film director, producer, star cheers on after a New York Knicks score against the Philadelphia 76ers during the third quarter of game three of the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what, it\u2019s loud. It\u2019s kind of the same no matter who the crowd is cheering for. It\u2019s loud. We have to be focused on the task at hand and just kind of have a short-term memory when it comes to things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What matters for Philadelphia now is the 3-0 hole, as one more loss would end the season.<\/p>\n

Whether one 76ers fan\u2019s ploy<\/a> to increase Amtrak ticket prices for Knicks fans for Sunday remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the 76ers\u2019 best efforts, they couldn\u2019t keep Knicks fans out of Philadelphia. Scores of Knicks supporters made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31763,5955,43202,76560,69,71,70,49367],"class_list":["post-187905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-76ers","tag-joel-embiid","tag-kelly-oubre","tag-knicks","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-xfinity-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}