{"id":189083,"date":"2026-05-11T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:17:10","slug":"knicks-fans-score-against-hapless-philly-even-at-sixers-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189083\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fans score against hapless Philly even at Sixers’ arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knicks fans thwarted the Philadelphia 76ers\u2019 evil plot <\/a>to block them from Game 4 of the play-offs at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philly on Sunday \u2014 packing the site to watch their beloved team cruise to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d admitted Sixers fan Tiffany Fenstermaker of Allentown, Pa., to The Post during halftime at the arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole stadium is Knicks fans!\u201d<\/p>\n

Knicks diehard Kehos Herz of Brooklyn brings a broom to the Philly arena to manifest a Knicks sweep of the 76ers \u2014 and it works! Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

A security guard at the stadium estimated that the crowd was \u201cabout 90 percent\u201d for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you can see is blue and orange,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The overwhelming New York representation occurred after Sixers\u2019 star Joel Embiid last week urged Philadelphia-area ticket-holders <\/a>not to sell to New York fans.<\/p>\n

Despite the loser Philly team even restricting sales<\/a> to those living in the \u201cGreater Philadelphia area,\u201d Knicks loyalists took over the arena \u2014 packing into shuttle buses to flood the away game.<\/p>\n

The security guard said he didn\u2019t blame Sixers fans <\/a>for selling their tickets to New York diehards because it\u2019s a \u201cblow-out\u201d business decision.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Knicks fans wait to enter Xfinity Mobile Arena before the away game. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

Knicks fan Gilberto Santiago of East Harlem said he was thrilled<\/a> when he bought his resale ticket for a fraction of what he would have paid to see his team at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

Sixers fan Tyheem told The Post that the overwhelming New York turnout was nothing short of a \u201ctravesty\u201d for his hometown cohort.<\/p>\n

Knicks fans flood the Sunday playoff game, which was initially restricted to \u201cGreater Philadelphia area\u201d ticket buyers online. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate it,\u201d he said, as his Philly team was down 30 points at half-time. \u201cThis damn score \u2026 I don\u2019t even want to see the game, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Philly fans opted to exit the arena early.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to have him sit there,\u201d a dad said, gesturing towards his young son.<\/p>\n

Knicks fan Gilberto Santiago walks around after getting a cheesesteak before the game. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all Knicks fans. They scooped up all the tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knicks fan Jimmy Middleton proclaimed outside the arena \u2014 where his team clobbered the Sixers 144 to 114, clinching a spot in the East Conference finals \u2014 \u201cWe\u2019ve taken over!\u201d<\/p>\n

Others screamed \u201cWelcome to New York South!\u201d<\/p>\n

Harlem resident Chris Washington, 46, said \u201cNew Yorkers are everywhere.<\/p>\n

Florence Clark says she she serves New York visitors daily at Geno\u2019s Steaks in Philadelphia. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI was going to support my Knicks regardless of anything the Sixers did,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful sight,\u201d he added, pointing to the sea of blue and orange.<\/p>\n

Some residents of the City of Brotherly Love turned a cold cheek to the fans from New York \u2014 where businesses largely erased \u201cPhilly\u201d <\/a>from their cheesesteak menus from Manhattan to Long Island last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York sucks, f\u2013k it. It\u2019s a cesspool of haters,\u201d said Florence Clark, a head cashier at Geno\u2019s Steaks, where Sixers fans were munching on cheesesteaks ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

Sixers fan Matthew Meehan, 21, of Westchester, Pa., downed a cheesesteak at Pat\u2019s King of Steaks while seething, \u201cAnyone with a brain is not ordering cheesesteak outside of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t touch any cheesesteak outside of Philadelphia unless they import the bread,\u2019\u2019 he sniffed.<\/p>\n

Some New York fans admitted they weren\u2019t even planning on attending the game before Embiid\u2019s taunt \u2014 but then snatched up tickets on the secondary market.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen someone tells you can\u2019t do something, it makes you want to do it,\u201d said 30-year-old Knicks fan Kabobs of Springfield, Va.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Embiid said he doesn\u2019t want Philly residents to sell tickets, that was more reason for me to get a ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks fans thwarted the Philadelphia 76ers\u2019 evil plot to block them from Game 4 of the play-offs at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58133,68899,84248,39663,69,1002,71,70,302],"class_list":["post-189083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-metro","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189083","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=189083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}