{"id":263364,"date":"2026-08-11T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:16:10","slug":"sixers-will-face-defending-champion-ny-knicks-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263364\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers Will Face Defending Champion NY Knicks In Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sixers starting five are expected to rapidly drive up ticket prices. Though tickets are not officially for sale through the team, professional ticket brokers have listed speculative seats on platforms like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vividseats.com\/new-york-knicks-tickets-madison-square-garden-10-20-2026--sports-nba-basketball\/production\/7415371?quantity=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vivid Seats<\/a>. Opening night seats for the Knicks game start at $2,000, and range up to $11,000. The cheapest tickets on the platform for the home opener with the Cavaliers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vividseats.com\/philadelphia-76ers-tickets-xfinity-mobile-arena-10-22-2026--sports-nba-basketball\/production\/7415522?quantity=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$654.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sixers feature a superstar starting five unlike anything put together in the league in years, and they will undoubtedly be at the center of national attention for the entire season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/lebron-james-join-sixers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stunning signing of LeBron<\/a> on July 24 completed a starting five that also added Jaylen Brown in a <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/sixers-trade-celtics-star-jaylen-brown-reportedly-want-lebron-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">separate shocking deal with the Boston Celtics<\/a> on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers starting five are expected to rapidly drive up ticket prices. Though tickets are not officially for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-263364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263364","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=263364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}