The cheapest tickets to watch the NBA Finals at New York’s Madison Square Garden, home of next week’s Game 3 and Game 4 between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs, were selling for $7,200 on Thursday.
After 3 p.m. local time on Thursday, prices on the online resale platform VividSeats for a seat at Madison Square Garden on June 8 ranged from $7,200 to $77,000.
Knicks craze drives ticket prices to record highs
These prices have risen vertically since last week, when the cheapest NBA Finals tickets were selling for $4,000.
The Knicks are returning to the Finals this year for the first time since 1999 and their fans are supporting the franchise not only at home.
The maximum price is $77.000
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But also in San Antonio, where hundreds of fans were seen in recent days in the streets of the city.
The NBA Finals, like a Michael Jackson concert
The worst ticket at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs was selling for $7,200 on Thursday.
Huge figures that even surprise the protagonists themselves.
Knicks star Jalen Brunson admitted he would pay that kind of money for a “live Michael Jackson concert.”
Finals fever continues to build in New York, even more so after the Knicks’ 105-95 flag-planting Wednesday in San Antonio to take a 1-0 series lead.
The first two games of the Finals are set for San Antonio.
But expectations are soaring in New York, where Madison Square Garden will host the first of its two games on Monday.
If last weekend the cheapest tickets were selling for $4,000, this Thursday morning the price reached $7,200 for a ticket in the last row of Madison Square Garden.
With information from EFE
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