National Basketball Association

Knicks tix selling for Linsane amounts

Published Feb. 14, 2012 12:00 a.m. ET

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Knick games are the hottest ticket in town since Jeremy Lin came out of nowhere to lead the team to an improbable six-game winning streak, including Tuesday night's stunning, last-second 90-87 win over the Toronto Raptors.

Post-Linsanity prices for Knicks home games on reseller sites such as StubHub and eBay have soared dramatically — as much as 108 percent for Sunday's game against the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks — since Lin's Feb. 4 breakthrough performance against the Nets.

"We have seen tremendous demand for Knicks tickets over the past couple of weeks since Jeremy Lin came onto the scene," said Chris Matcovich of TiqIQ, which tracks ticket prices on the secondary market.

And the fans are getting their money's worth as the Linsanity shows no signs of letting up.

The NBA's first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent hit a heart-stopping three pointer with a half-second left to give the Knicks a come-from-behind win over the Raptors at the Air Canada Centre.

The crowd in cosmopolitan Toronto, where almost 12 percent of the population is of Chinese descent, went wild as the buzzer sounded, even though the hometown team went down.

The average price for a ticket for Wednesday night's game at Madison Square Garden against the cellar-dwelling Sacramento Kings is $379 — 65 percent higher than the pre-Lin average, Matcovich said.

And the numbers show no sign of returning to Earth, with prices for this weekend's games going through the roof at Madison Square Garden.

The average price for a seat to see the Knicks play the New Orleans Hornets on Friday is $385, up 67 percent. And a ticket for Sunday's match against the Mavs is going for $478.