Posted on 06/11/2026 6:49:48 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The New York Knicks‘ return to the NBA Finals has created one of the hottest ticket markets in sports history, and the prices fans paid to attend Game 3 at Madison Square Garden have left many stunned...
One fan revealed she paid an astonishing $20,000...
For many supporters, the biggest frustration is how quickly lifelong Knicks fans have been priced out of the building...
"It’s unfair to us true Knicks fans. I feel like a peasant outside the castle.”
A different fan echoed those concerns.
“I think the price of tickets is kind of outrageous. You see a lot of celebrities being able to go, and I love that. But for an average Joe like myself, and a lot of other people, it’s too expensive for us to be able to go. But, you know, it’s New York..."
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If you gave me a ticket and prevented me from selling it I would have thrown it away. If you had a ticket to the “The Who” on their 1975 tour I would pay $1000 for that. Maybe more.
“I live in NY...”
My sympathies, sincerely
Why am I hearing P.T. Barnum in my head?
So much for any affordability crisis....
To watch their team win the biggest comeback in NBA history? Those tickets can make money someday. Maybe not 20k, but a substantial return on investment.
I think that’s the point...only moguls and celebrities can afford the event. So that proves the crisis for everyone else.
Agree.
....sell one or two playoff tickets and you go a long way towards paying for your season tickets...
SA had that game locked up, then the swifty and her fans jinxed SA
Probably on welfare, it pays pretty good.
yup- I have season tickets for the NY Mets- 20 game plan. When they made it to the NL title series against the Dodgers several years ago i went to one playoff game per series and sold the others- making a killing.
You could sell Knick tickets and have a years worth of mortgage payments!!!!
Back during the Chicago Bulls “Dream Team” years, my wife’s cousin came over and was showing us her ticket stub from one of the playoff games. It was row #1, right behind the Bulls’ bench. Her brother was a local sports writer, and I suspect he had connections. I have no idea what those tickets cost him. I’m sure they weren’t cheap, and it was also 30 years ago…
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