{"id":516222,"date":"2026-08-11T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=516222"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:23:53","slug":"champion-knicks-to-begin-new-season-against-76ers-and-lebron","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/champion-knicks-to-begin-new-season-against-76ers-and-lebron\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion Knicks to begin new season against 76ers and LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Knicks will raise their championship banner on the league\u2019s opening night on October 20<sup>th<\/sup>, as they will play vs. LeBron James, who will make his debut for the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics at Detroit Pistons open the tripleheader, while the other match will be between the OKC and the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>The new-look Sixers, transformed by the offseason acquisitions of LeBron and Jaylen Brown, sustained a 4-0 sweep in the past campaign against the Knicks in the East Conference \u00bd finals. Meanwhile, San Antonio eliminated the Thunder in 7 matches in the West Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>Boston was eliminated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round in the past campaign, while Detroit reached the East Conference \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of doubleheaders on the opening week will feature Giannis Antetokounmpo making his debut with the Miami Heat vs. the Timberwolves on October 21<sup>st<\/sup>, while on the same day, the Warriors will face the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA also revealed its Christmas Day schedule, and without a doubt, the most interesting match will be between the 76ers and the Lakers as LeBron James will face his ex-team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KNICKS BANNER RAISING NIGHT AT MSG. \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>LEBRON AND JAYLEN BROWN&#39;S SIXERS DEBUTS. \ud83c\udf7f<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks raise their first championship banner in 53 years before Jalen Brunson leads New York into its title defense against the new-look 76ers on Opening Night!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Tuesday, October 20 on NBC\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lCdbFgjDFJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lCdbFgjDFJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2087144162839691726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Knicks will raise their championship banner on the league\u2019s opening night on October 20th, as they will play vs. LeBron James, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":516223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,17172,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17644,18191,17913],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"New York will face Philadelphia at the beginning of the new campaign.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516224,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516222\/revisions\/516224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516222"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=516222"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=516222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}