A number New York has never seen
The cheapest seat for the New York Knicks’ season opener against the Philadelphia 76ers costs $1,251. TicketData.com published that figure earlier today, and it sits above the get-in price of every regular-season game played across the whole 2025-26 season. Not a Christmas Day showcase, not a Finals rematch. One October night at Madison Square Garden has cleared the lot.
The price is actually falling. When the fixture was announced in August and TicketData started tracking it, the get-in hit $1,962. Knicks Fan First Chase cardholders received their window on Monday and pushed it to $1,408. General sale opened on Wednesday at $1,363. Two days of supply have taken roughly $110 off the bottom rung, which says plenty about how thin the early market was.
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Two reasons the market lost its head
The Knicks host this game on 20 October as champions for the first time since 1973, a 53-year wait that ended in June with Jalen Brunson holding the Finals MVP trophy. Banner nights sell themselves.
Philadelphia supplied the rest of the demand. The 76ers signed LeBron James over the summer and acquired Jaylen Brown, dropping both alongside Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey. Four names of that weight on one roster, in the building where a championship banner goes up, on the first night of the season.
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Across the Knicks’ 45 scheduled preseason and regular-season home dates, the average get-in price is $262. The Los Angeles Lakers sit second at $130. The Boston Celtics follow at $99. New York is more than twice as expensive as any other building in the league across an entire schedule, not just one marquee evening.
At the other end of the market, a seat at a Charlotte Hornets or Memphis Grizzlies home game currently starts at $23. Fifty-four of those tickets buy you one spot in the Garden on 20 October.
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