The Knicks are not just back in the NBA Finals. New York is pricing like a city that waited 27 years for this exact week.
According to NBACentral, the get-in price for Game 3 at Madison Square Garden has climbed to $6,207. That is not a courtside number. That is the cheapest listed seat in the building for the Knicks' first home game of this Finals series against the Spurs.
It is an absurd figure on its own, but it also says something real about where the Knicks are right now. New York has a 1-0 series lead, a 12-game playoff winning streak, and a Finals matchup that brings Victor Wembanyama to Madison Square Garden. That combination was always going to turn the secondary market into chaos.
The basketball still has to hold up. San Antonio will have its adjustments, and Game 2 comes first. But the Game 3 ticket number already tells the business side of the story: Knicks Finals hype is not theoretical anymore. It is expensive, immediate, and very New York.
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