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The New York Knicks are one win away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999, and if the crowds around Madison Square Garden after the victories are any indication, it will be pandemonium in New York if that happens.
Additionally, a ticket to enter “The Garden” for the finals is bound to be expensive, as it has been throughout the playoffs. But perhaps no one expected that two seats in the field had already sold.
Sports journalist Darren Rovell has confirmed the sale of two on-court tickets at MSG for the NBA Finals, for a whopping $279,804.
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Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks celebrates after making a basket against the Cleveland Cavaliers during the third quarter of Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 21, 2026. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
The purchase was made on StubHub, the secondary ticketing company, for what would be the Knicks’ first home game in the Finals. This would be Game 3, as the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs both have higher seeds than the Knicks in these NBA playoffs.
It’s mind-blowing, that’s an understatement for an award of this magnitude, but it’s also crazy to see the potential history of one of the most storied franchises in sports.
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It’s been 53 years since the Knicks last won an NBA title, dating back to the years with Walt “Clyde Frazier,” Phil Jackson, Dick Barnett, Willis Reed and Bill Bradley. The Knicks won two titles in 1970 and 1973, as Red Holzman’s team was forever engraved in basketball lore.
Since that 1973 victory, the Knicks have only appeared in the NBA Finals twice, the first in 1994, when the Houston Rockets won Game 7, 90-84, to dash New York’s dreams.
Miles McBride and Mikal Bridges of the New York Knicks celebrate after McBride’s 3-pointer against the Philadelphia 76ers in the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 10, 2026. (Émilee Chinn/Getty Images)
Then, in 1999, Patrick Ewing, Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston and current Knicks coach Rick Brunson, the father of All-Star guard Jalen Brunson, returned to the Finals and faced a potential opponent this year: the Spurs.
But Tim Duncan and company got the job done in just five games, beating the Knicks, 78-77, in Game 5 to celebrate their title on the MSG hardwood.
Knicks fans are hoping that’s not the case this time, but they need to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers once again after taking a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals following a road victory Saturday night. New York has now won 10 straight playoff games, and its only two first-round losses to the Atlanta Hawks came by one point.
As a result, fans are already looking for tickets to this third game in the Garden. As of Sunday evening, the cheapest ticket to enter the building on StubHub is $3,554 in section 418.
Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks reacts after scoring during the second half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in New York, New York on May 19, 2026. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
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For comparison, the cheapest ticket to a potential Game 1 of the NBA Finals at the Paycor Center — home of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who lead the Spurs, 2-1, in the Western Conference Finals — is $1,252 on StubHub. The available one-story seat costs $32,106 as of Sunday night.
The Knicks could earn their spot in the NBA Finals on Memorial Day, where they will face the Cavaliers in Game 4 in Cleveland at 8 p.m.
