Knicks Pause Ticket Sales After Pricing Mistake

The New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden have paused individual ticket sales after listing primary-market prices for their Oct. 20 home opener that were far higher than intended, attributing the error to an internal mistake. The team announced it will roll back prices to last season's levels plus an average 12% increase and will refund the difference to fans who already purchased tickets at the inflated rates. The controversy began when single-game tickets went on sale to the general public on Wednesday, September 16. For the highly anticipated home opener against the Philadelphia 76ers, which will feature the Knicks' championship banner-raising and ring ceremony, primary-market standard-admission tickets on Ticketmaster were listed with a get-in price starting at $1,039.50 for an upper-deck seat in Section 418. Prices in other sections climbed even higher, with some listings exceeding $2,000. Madison Square Garden Sports confirmed the error in a statement, saying, "We are pausing Knicks individual ticket sales due to a mistake in our pricing. We are rolling back to last year's prices plus an average increase of 12.