{"id":810040,"date":"2026-08-11T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810040\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:35:34","slug":"sixers-schedule-includes-matchup-against-knicks-on-nbas-opening-night-lebron-faces-lakers-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810040\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers schedule includes matchup against Knicks on NBA&#8217;s opening night, LeBron faces Lakers on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; schedule includes some primetime spotlight this season\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/lebron-james-sixers-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">after big acquisitions of LeBron James<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/jaylen-brown-sixers-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaylen Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA on Tuesday morning announced a few sneak peeks at the 2026 season schedule, and the Sixers play a major part.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2087142453295927304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sixers tip off against the defending champion New York Knicks<\/a> on the first day of the regular season, Tuesday Oct. 20. This game is happening at 7 p.m. at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jaylen-brown-and-lebron-james-philadelphia-76ers.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"jaylen-brown-and-lebron-james-philadelphia-76ers.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images\/CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Then on Christmas Day, the Sixers get away from the chill in Philly \u2014 they&#8217;ll be out in Los Angeles as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2087144387411108151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">James returns to face his former team, the Lakers<\/a>, at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The full schedule will be released on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; schedule includes some primetime spotlight this season\u00a0after big acquisitions of LeBron James\u00a0and\u00a0Jaylen Brown. The NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,2113,99],"class_list":["post-810040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}