{"id":45807,"date":"2022-08-15T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-christmas-day-sixers-to-play-knicks-at-madison-square-garden-per-report\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:21:39","slug":"nba-christmas-day-sixers-to-play-knicks-at-madison-square-garden-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-christmas-day-sixers-to-play-knicks-at-madison-square-garden-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Christmas Day: Sixers to play Knicks at Madison Square Garden, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>James Harden apparently felt compelled to share an inside scheduling scoop Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-timestamp=\"1660521663\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JHarden13\/status\/1558948828576899074\" target=\"_blank\">The Sixers&#8217; All-Star guard tweeted \u201cChristmas in the garden!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-timestamp=\"1660521678\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1558955286412533761\" target=\"_blank\">Veteran NBA reporter Marc Stein <\/a>confirmed that \u201cSixers at Knicks is indeed on ESPN\/ABC&#8217;s preliminary Christmas schedule.\u201d  Andean<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-timestamp=\"1660521683\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1558956643391377408\" target=\"_blank\"> The Athletic&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a> later reported the league&#8217;s full five-game slate.  Bucks at Celtics is the only other game between Eastern Conference teams on the Christmas calendar. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-link embed-tw\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Sources: NBA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2022 Christmas Day schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Bucks at Celtics<br \/>76ers at Knicks<br \/>Suns at Nuggets<br \/>Lakers at Mavericks<br \/>Grizzlies at Warriors<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1558956643391377408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 2017-18 Sixers also spent Christmas at Madison Square Garden as Joel Embiid scored 25 points and JJ Redick added 24 in a 105-98 win over the Knicks.  That victory improved the team to 15-18.  Incredibly, the Sixers lost just 12 of their final 49 games from that point. <\/p>\n<p>The Sixers&#8217; 2017 win in New York broke a 16-year run without a Christmas appearance.  They ultimately played three straight years on the holiday, suffering an overtime loss to the Celtics in 2018 and beating the Bucks at Wells Fargo Center in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Harden enjoyed his one previous Sixers experience at the Garden, recording a 29-point triple-double on Feb.  27 in his second outing with the team.  Embiid made 23 free throws and attempted 27, setting new career highs in both categories, and the Sixers pulled away from the Knicks late. <\/p>\n<p>The NBA will release its full schedule this week, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-timestamp=\"1660521752\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1558269112064909313\" target=\"_blank\">Stein reported<\/a>.  The Sixers&#8217; four-game preseason will begin with an Oct.  3 matchup against the Nets in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ad Slot --><\/p>\n<p>As for the regular season, all 82 Sixers games should be official soon.  And perhaps Harden has some more news up his sleeve. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script><\/p>\n<p>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)<\/p>\n<p>{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?<\/p>\n<p>n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};<\/p>\n<p>if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';<\/p>\n<p>n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;<\/p>\n<p>t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];<\/p>\n<p>s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',<\/p>\n<p>'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>function getCookie(cname) {\n    let name = cname + \"=\";\n    let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);\n    let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');\n    for (let i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {\n        let c = ca[i];\n        while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {\n            c = c.substring(1);\n        }\n        if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {\n            return c.substring(name.length, c.length);\n        }\n    }\n    return \"\";\n}\n\n\n  if (getCookie('usprivacy') === '1YYN') {\n    fbq('dataProcessingOptions', ['LDU'], 0, 0);\n  }\n  \n\nfbq('init', '674090812743125');\n\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden apparently felt compelled to share an inside scheduling scoop Sunday night. The Sixers&#8217; All-Star guard tweeted \u201cChristmas in the garden!\u201d Veteran NBA reporter Marc Stein confirmed that \u201cSixers at Knicks is indeed on ESPN\/ABC&#8217;s preliminary Christmas schedule.\u201d Andean The Athletic&#8217;s Shams Charania later reported the league&#8217;s full five-game slate. Bucks at Celtics is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-christmas-day-sixers-to-play-knicks-at-madison-square-garden-per-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBA Christmas Day: Sixers to play Knicks at Madison Square Garden, per report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45692,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-decides-five-christmas-day-matchups-per-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":45807,"position":0},"title":"NBA Decides Five Christmas Day Matchups, per Report","date":"August 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas Day is one of the biggest days of the year for the NBA and it appears that this year's marquee holiday matchups have been all but officially announced.The Bucks will play the Celtics, the 76ers will face the Knicks, the Suns will square off against the Nuggets, the Lakers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15794,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/steins-latest-mitchell-knicks-sixers-lakers-beverley\/","url_meta":{"origin":45807,"position":1},"title":"Stein&#8217;s Latest: Mitchell, Knicks, Sixers, Lakers, Beverley","date":"July 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"New York's impending pursuit of Jane Brunson became obvious once a knicks led by Julius Randle, William Wesley and Allan Houston was spotted at Game 1 of the first-round series between the Mavericks and Jazz. 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