{"id":893453,"date":"2026-09-12T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:38:15","slug":"knicks-fans-to-pay-over-500-more-than-last-year-to-get-in-for-opening-night-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893453\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fans to pay over 500% more than last year to get in for Opening Night game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secondary ticket prices to the New York Knicks home opener have shot up more than 500% from last year \u2014 now costing over $1,300 to get in the door.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest seats on the secondary market for the Oct. 20 opening night game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden cost $1,346 a piece, including fees, according to data company TicketIQ.<\/p>\n<p>That is a massive 526% increase from the 2025 home opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers, which had a final get-in price of $215, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40774908\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/knicks-guard-jalen-brunson-reflected-127291759.jpg\" alt=\"A fan wearing a New York Knicks hat and orange-and-black checkered sunglasses, with a reflection of Knicks guard Jalen Brunson in the lenses.\" class=\"wp-image-40774908\"\/>Knicks fans will be shelling out more than 500% more for opening night<br \/>this season than last season. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Opening Night get-in price is higher than all Knicks playoff games last season except for Game 3 and Game 4 of the NBA Finals, TicketIQ reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe championship has completely reset the Knicks ticket market,\u201d said Jesse Lawrence, CEO of TicketIQ.<\/p>\n<p>The get-in price for games at MSG will be roughly 47% higher than last year \u2014 jumping from $234 last season to $344 this upcoming season, according to TicketIQ.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40659341;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40774911\" width=\"830\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nba-playoffs-game-6-new-126744227.jpg\" alt=\"New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby (8) in a blue jersey during the first quarter of an NBA Playoffs game, with fans reacting in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-40774911\"\/>The opening night will see the Knicks raise a championship banner into the rafters thanks, in part, to NBA Finals hero OG Anunoby (left) and Karl-Anthony Towns (right). Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Driving the price surge for the home opener are two major basketball milestones.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks will raise a championship banner into the rafters in MSG for the first time in 53 years \u2014 when the team last won the NBA Finals in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The game will also be the debut of LeBron James as a 76er after he ditched the Los Angeles Lakers for the City of Brotherly Love this past off season.<\/p>\n<p>The market for tickets on opening night is still fluid and the get-in price is down 5% over the last four days from $1,417, according to TicketIQ.<\/p>\n<p>The Post reached out to MSG for information regarding ticket prices for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secondary ticket prices to the New York Knicks home opener have shot up more than 500% from last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,19284,2327,37412,9929,459,2901,15716,1528,82,7333],"class_list":["post-893453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-lebron-james","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-metro","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports","tag-ticket-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}