Knicks mania is sweeping New York City, and with it comes the psychosis that some people say you would have to be experiencing to spend more than $100,000 on a single ticket to watch the team play. Or maybe it’s not crazy at all and a very good use of one’s hard-earned cash, assuming that cash wasn’t earned by, say, selling a kidney (or not! There’s a reason you’ve got two). Either way, resale tickets have officially crossed into six-figure territory.
As of Friday morning, a section 11D, row 1, ticket for game four versus the San Antonio Spurs was being offered at $102,603. The cheapest single ticket for that game at Madison Square Garden was a bargain basement $8,929 for section 313, row 1. Should the Knicks not clinch the championship in a four-game sweep — fans can only dream after Wednesday’s come-from-behind triumph in San Antonio — there are currently several game-six tickets for $152,900 a pop in section 10D, row 2, on StubHub. (If you shift over to 11D, there are a pair for $182,400 each.)
For the majority of humans, spending six figures on a single sporting event is not even worth considering, no matter how fervently their fandom. On the other hand, New York City is home to more billionaires than anywhere on earth, for whom $100,000 is the equivalent of loose change lost in the cushions of their private jet.
