On Wednesday, the Knicks’ official ticketing site showed prices the franchise had not intended. For the first home game of the season at Madison Square Garden, against the Sixers, some seats went past 1,000 dollars and the average price reached around 2,500 dollars. “We are pausing sales of Knicks single-game tickets because of an error in our pricing. […] We will be going back to last year’s prices, with an average increase of 12%,” a Knicks spokesperson said.
That 12% had already been applied to season tickets after last season’s title, the franchise’s first in 53 years. MSG added: “It was never our intention to overcharge our loyal fans”.
Sunday, after dinner, I called my mother in Indiana. She had seen the story go by. She asked me how a team that waits fifty-three years to win can get the price of its first game wrong. I said it happens, it was a mistake, they’re giving the difference back to the people who paid. Let me tell you: in 2000 I arrived here with one bag and a one-year contract, and for my first game you paid at a folding table, in a hall with badminton lines on the floor; the price was written in biro on a piece of cardboard, and the cardboard never lied. My mother thought about it for a moment. She said: they waited fifty-three years, they can wait until Monday to sell. She said: see?
A price grid is a column. If the column is wrong, you don’t argue with it, you do it again. It’s on the sheet.
Ticket sales are due to reopen early next week.
It’s true, we checked: Basket USA.
