Celtics-Knicks Game 3 Ticket Prices Near $2,000 on Resale Market

Tickets for the upcoming games at Madison Square Garden are reaching low-tier Super Bowl LIX resale pricing.

May 8, 2025

The Boston Celtics and New York Knicks are currently going at it in the NBA playoffs.

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The Boston Celtics and New York Knicks are currently battling it out in the NBA playoffs, and the demand for tickets are currently sending resale prices through the roof.

Data from ticketing tech company Victory Live, which analyzes actual transactions on the secondary market, showed an average price of $1,956 for Game 3 and $1,716 for Game 4, per the Associated Press.

Some tickets for Game 3 (May 10) are crossing $2,000, which is nearing some of the lower-end resale prices for Super Bowl LIX in February, according to Front Office Sports.

The lowest available ticket for Game 3 on StubHub was priced at $626 while Vivid Seats listed the cheapest Game 4 ticket at $613—both of which will be held at Madison Square Garden.

The surge in demand is thanks to the Knicks’ back-to-back wins over the defending champion Celtics, and overcoming 20-point deficits in each game.

With two more wins, the Knicks could reach the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2000, after having been eliminated in the semifinals for the past two seasons.

On the flipside, the Celtics won the NBA championship in 2024 and could become the first team to repeat a consecutive win since the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018.

In other Celtics-Knicks news, Paul Pierce has learned to regret not having faith in the New York Knicks.

Before Game 2 went down on Wednesday (May 7), the Celtics legend indicated that he was more than confident that his former team would beat the Knicks after suffering a loss in the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals match-up.

"If the Celtics lose Game 2 at home, I promise you, I'm walking here tomorrow," he said on Fox Sports 1. "I'm walking here. I'm walking here. 15 miles. I'm walking here. In my robe. No shoes on. Barefeet. If the Celtics lose."

Unfortunately for Pierce, who was drafted by the Celtics in 1998 and played 15 seasons with the team, the Knicks won 91-90. A man of his word, he committed to the eight-hour, 20-plus mile trek to work and documented his journey on his Instagram Stories.