Ticket prices for NBA Finals Game 3 and 4 at Madison Square Garden on Monday and Wednesday “continued to skyrocket” after the Knicks took a 2-0 lead against the Spurs on Friday. As of Saturday, the lowest-price resale tickets for Game 3 stood at $9,866 per seat on StubHub, $10,260 on TickPick and $10,883 on SeatGeek, all of which were in the nose-bleed sections. Prices for Game 4 started at $11,685 on TickPick with a high of $88,254 on SeatGeek. The lowest price on SeatGeek was $12,195. On StubHub, it was $12,650 (NEWSDAY, 6/6).
The Wall Street Journal went with the header, “The Wall Street mania pushing Knicks tickets to $176,000.” The cachet and status associated with the ticket mania is “giving many fans lucky and patient enough to be Knicks season-ticket holders an option between living New York glory or cashing in big. For everyone else, as one Manhattan executive put it, scrambling to see the team’s first trip to the finals since the Clinton administration “is like the f—ing ‘Hunger Games’” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/5).
There are at least 490,000 accounts trying to get tickets to the Knicks fan first Chase on-sale for Game 3. pic.twitter.com/V0C4w9eHsy
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 7, 2026
Meanwhile, a NYPD police officer was “beaten and 26 people were arrested” outside MSG on Friday as “thousands of fans celebrated” the Knicks’ Game 2 victory. The officer was “repeatedly punched as she tried to stop a female fan who refused to leave.” The fan was charged with assault, resisting arrest and obstruction of government administration. An estimated 6,500 people showed up to attend the watch party outside MSG. Police “apprehended 26 people in total for a variety of offenses,” with 17 ”criminally charged” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/6).
Notable names in attendance for NBA Finals Game 2 at Frost Bank Center included Timothee Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Tracy Morgan, Spike Lee, Chris Tucker, Shane Gillis, Lance Armstrong, Fat Joe, Paulina Chavez, Jeremy Piven, Billy Baldwin, the Stokes Twins, Patrick Ewing, Walt Frazier, Allan Houston, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, George Gervin, Manu Ginobili, Robert Horry, Chris Paul, Danny Green, Sean Elliott, Bruce Bowen, Avery Johnson, Antonio Daniels, Jaren Jackson Sr., George Hill and Jeff Ayres (X, 6/5).
