New York Knicks NBA Finals ticket prices reach unprecedented levels

May 26, 2026 NBA News

New York Knicks fever has hit the Big Apple, and it might just take an arm and a leg for some fans to get inside Madison Square Garden for the team’s first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.

Just as soon as the Knicks officially swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals on Monday, May 26, the demand to be in the building when they face either the Oklahoma City Thunder or San Antonio Spurs pushed ticket prices to levels not seen in recent years for the NBA Finals.

Tickpick announced in the immediate aftermath of the Knicks’ Game 4 win over the Cavaliers that Games 3 and 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden are “the most expensive NBA Finals tickets on record.” The secondary ticket marketplace app said get-in prices at that point were $3,745 for Game 3 and $3,464 for Game 4.

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