Joel Embiid pretty much begged 76ers fans not to sell their tickets and to show up for the home games during their second round matchup with the Knicks. 

The team tried their best to keep New Yorkers from being able to acquire them, as well. 

The organization went as far as donating tickets to local community groups in an effort to keep Knicks fans out. 

Spoiler alert, it didn’t work. 

“I used to think Philly was a sports town, I don’t know anymore,” Josh Hart said.

The orange and blue faithful absolutely dominated Xfinity Mobile Arena in Game 3, and it was even worse with a chance to close the series out on Sunday for Game 4.

New York fans once again showed up and showed out.

Cheers were so loud when the Knicks were welcomed to the court pregame that if you weren’t looking you would've thought the home team was being introduced. 

And those cheers only grew louder and louder as the Knicks jumped out to commanding double-digit advantage behind a historic three-point shooting opening quarter. 

“It’s one of the coolest things in the world hearing Knicks fans take over opposing arenas,” Jalen Brunson said.

They exploded again after Mitchell Robinson knocked both of his free throws when Philly turned to the Hack-A-Mitch strategy in an effort to slow things down late in the second quarter.

Minutes later, a contingent of Knicks fans behind the basket were shown holding up pictures of Robinson’s posterization of Joel Embiid as the big man attempted free throws on the other end.

And with the hometown fans making their way towards the exits, chants of ‘Knicks in 4’ and ‘Let’s Go Knicks’ rang throughout the area down the stretch in the blowout victory. 

Philly sounded like MSG East, once again.

“I got a lot of respect for you, Knicks fans,” Mike Brown said. 

“When you can takeover a “sports town” that gives the guys so much confidence,” Hart said. “JB, myself, Mikal [Bridges] have ties here so it never felt like a road game, and they made sure to echo that.”