By Devon Henderson | The Athletic, 2026-05-19 01:54:16
纽约尼克斯队的门票如今成了市面上最昂贵的抢手货。
你想在东部决赛期间去现场看他们迎战克利夫兰骑士队吗？那你只能掏空钱包，把里面的每一分钱都抖落出来了。
随着尼克斯队全力冲击自1999年以来的首次总决赛席位，麦迪逊广场花园的现场观赛票价一路飙升。作为证据，不妨看看周二进行的第一场比赛。根据StubHub的数据，即便是在球馆顶层角落的“山顶位”，在不含手续费的情况下也至少需要花费570美元。
如果你想坐得更靠中间一点——尽管依然是“山顶位”——票价也将超过700美元。而随着首战临近，一张靠近下层看台或场边的座位票价甚至可能超过13000美元。
尽管整座城市都为尼克斯队感到疯狂，但有一位关键的纽约人对这种过度消费主义的转变并不太热心。
在季后赛开始前，纽约市长佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 曾对迅速上涨的票价表示遗憾，并认为他的选民“正在被剥夺带给他们如此多快乐的事物”。几周前，马姆达尼与该市的国家女子足球联赛 (NWSL) 球队哥谭FC (Gotham FC) 合作，提供了1000张售价仅为5美元的门票。
“我们看到体育运动正日益变成一种奢侈商品，而过去并非总是如此，”马姆达尼在4月中旬的新闻发布会上表示。“我依然对今年夺冠充满信心和希望。然而，我确实希望所有这些门票的价格能更加亲民。”
与其他三个将举办NBA分区决赛的城市相比，纽约令人咋舌的票价显得更加高昂。目前在StubHub上，克利夫兰东部决赛第三场的最低票价为294美元，不过豪华场边座位的价格高达5567美元。
就在西部决赛俄克拉荷马城雷霆队与圣安东尼奥马刺队在俄克拉荷马城开球前，佩科姆中心 (Paycom Center) “山顶位”的票价依然低至177美元。开球前最贵的门票价格为3216美元。
在圣安东尼奥，马刺队与雷霆队第三场对决的“山顶位”目前挂牌价低至311美元，而弗罗斯特银行中心 (Frost Bank Center) 篮架下方的座位票价则高达8000美元以上。
如果系列赛延长到潜在的淘汰赛，由于竞争更加激烈，票价自然会水涨船高。在俄克拉荷马城，第五场的最低票价将为299美元；而如果需要进行第五场，进入麦迪逊广场花园的最低门票价格则高达796美元。
ESPN的迈克·布林 (Mike Breen) 指出，周二售出了两张第一场的场边票，单张售价高达53000美元。
“我认为，对于许多纽约人来说，这场比赛是全城共同庆祝的盛事，”马姆达尼说。“当尼克斯队表现出色时，你能在整个城市感受到这种氛围。而这不仅仅属于那些买得起票去现场看球的人。”
1999年，尼克斯队成为NBA历史上首支晋级总决赛的“黑八”球队，在总决赛中与处于蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan) 领衔的王朝初期的马刺队相遇。根据《纽约时报》 (The New York Times) 1999年的报道，当年尼克斯队的季票平均价格为每场79美元。而据StubHub的数据，今年这一数字已达到每场815美元。此外，据《纽约时报》报道，当年纽约总决赛的场边席票价为2700美元，而圣安东尼奥的场边席仅需500美元。马刺队最终以大比分4-1赢下了该系列赛。
如果4号种子骑士队将纽约逼入一战定胜负的抢七大战，那么目前StubHub上挂牌的最便宜单张门票价格将超过1100美元，同时仍有数张五位数的场边票在售。
带着七连胜之势迎来与克利夫兰首战的尼克斯队，能否像他们的票价一样保持火热势头？
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Knicks’ conference finals ticket prices run rampant as NBA Finals pursuit continues
The New York Knicks are the priciest ticket around.
Are you hoping to see them host the Cleveland Cavaliers during the Eastern Conference Finals? You’ll only have to open up your wallet and shake every penny loose.
As the Knicks pursue their first NBA Finals berth since 1999, prices for in-person attendance at Madison Square Garden have surged. For proof, try looking from the top corner of the arena in Game 1 on Tuesday, a nosebleed view that would run you at least $570 before fees, according to StubHub.
Should you want to sit more centrally — albeit still in the nosebleeds — you’re looking at over $700, and a seat closer to the lower bowl or courtside as Game 1 approaches could run you over $13,000.
Although the city is excited to see its Knicks, one key New Yorker isn’t too enthused about the consumerism shift.
Before the playoffs, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani lamented the rapidly rising prices of tickets and how he feels his constituents are “being pushed out of the very things that give them so much joy.” A few weeks ago, Mamdani teamed up with Gotham FC — the city’s NWSL team — to offer 1,000 tickets priced at $5.
“We have seen sports become more and more of a luxury commodity, and that is not what it always used to be,” Mamdani said in a mid-April press conference. “I am still confident and hopeful of a championship this year. I do wish, however, that all of these tickets were far more affordably priced.”
New York’s exorbitant prices look even steeper when compared to prices in the other three cities that will be hosting NBA conference finals games. The lowest price available right now on StubHub for Game 3 of the East finals in Cleveland is $294, although premium courtside seats reach as high as $5,567.
Just before tipoff between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals in Oklahoma City, tickets were still as cheap as $177 for nosebleed seats in the Paycom Center. The most expensive ticket leading up to tipoff cost $3,216.
In San Antonio, Game 3 between the Spurs and Thunder currently has tickets listed for as low as $311 for nosebleed seats, while seats just under the basket at the Frost Bank Center are running for upwards of $8,000.
If the series is extended into potential elimination games, naturally, prices jump even higher due to higher stakes. A Game 5 in Oklahoma City would cost, at the lowest, $299, while the cheapest tickets to get into Madison Square Garden for a Game 5, if necessary, are $796.
ESPN’s Mike Breen noted that two courtside tickets for Game 1 sold on Tuesday for $53,000 apiece.
“I think that there are many New Yorkers for whom the game is something that is celebrated across the entire city,” Mamdani said. “When the Knicks do well, you feel it across this whole city. And it’s not just for those who can afford to go to the game.”
In 1999, the Knicks became the first-ever No. 8 seed to reach the NBA Finals, matching up with the Spurs in the earliest years of their Tim Duncan-led dynasty. According to reporting by The New York Times in 1999, the average season ticket price for the Knicks that year was $79 per game. This year, it was $815 per game, according to StubHub. Also, according to the Times, a courtside seat to the NBA Finals in New York cost $2,700, while courtside seats in San Antonio ran for just $500. The Spurs would end up winning the series in five games.
Should the fourth-seeded Cavaliers push New York to a winner-take-all Game 7, then StubHub currently has the cheapest single tickets listed at over $1,100, with several five-figure courtside seats still available.
Can the Knicks, who enter Game 1 against Cleveland on a seven-game win streak, remain as hot as their prices?
By Devon Henderson, via The Athletic