{"id":519007,"date":"2026-10-21T01:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519007"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:14:33","slug":"76ers-defeat-champion-knicks-106-100-in-lebron-james-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/76ers-defeat-champion-knicks-106-100-in-lebron-james-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers defeat champion Knicks 106-100 in LeBron James opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers showed that they will be a contender for the NY Knicks\u2019 NBA trophy after adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown and beating the defending champs 106-100 at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey notched 28 points and Brown added 19, 8 boards and 6 assists in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match since being acquired from the Celtics. LeBron started his league-record 24<sup>th<\/sup> campaign by scoring 14 points and also finishing with 9 boards and 6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers got 3 three-pointers from Anfernee Simons and 2 from fellow newcomer Kentavious Caldwell-Pope as the reserves were the key to the triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Brunson finished with 21 points but he NBA Finals MVP shot just 6 for 19 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen said to supporters inside Madison Square Garden in a pregame ceremony when the organization raised their NBA championship banner and received their rings that: \u201cThe joy that everyone had last season, we will do everything possible to replicate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, they started the title defense with a defeat but will have a perfect chance to get on the right track when they face the Celtics in Boston at the end of the week, while Philly welcomes the Cavaliers next.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James and Jaylen Brown make their Philly debuts, @sixers open the season with a W \u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>@KingJames: 14 PTS, 9 REB, 7 AST<br \/>\n@FCHWPO: 19 PTS, 8 REB, 6 AST https:\/\/t.co\/0tdCrZBsLP<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2112730941110227181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 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 Philadelphia 76ers showed that they will be a contender for the NY Knicks\u2019 NBA trophy after adding LeBron James and Jaylen Brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519008,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17172,16840],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18191,17913],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Philadelphia won their game in the superstar debut.","video":["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\/519007"}],"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=519007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519009,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519007\/revisions\/519009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519007"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519007"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}