Know if a ticket price is a good deal

Tonight's game is the one you'd be buying for. Knicks vs. 76ers is at Madison Square Garden tonight (Oct 20) at 7pm ET, so "wait" now means waiting a few hours, not a few days.

Cheapest ticket by day for the last 2 weeks (TickPick, per ticket, fees included)

Today, in 15-minute snapshots: The cheapest ticket went from about $1,070 yesterday afternoon to $1,550 overnight, peaked at $2,174 around 12:30pm ET, and was $1,841 at about 3pm ET, the latest reading. One snapshot at 10:45am showed $386, but the price was back to $2,104 15 minutes later. That was probably one cheap listing that sold right away, or a data glitch, so don't plan around it.

Buy now or wait?

• The low has already passed. For two weeks the cheapest ticket stayed between about $1,000 and $1,175. It bottomed at $1,000 on Oct 18–19 and has jumped about 80% since then.
• Fewer tickets are listed. There are 870 listings now, down from about 3,400 a week ago and 2,236 yesterday. With fewer tickets, the cheapest one costs more.
• Today's price is falling a little from its peak ($2,174 → $1,841). Resale sellers often cut prices just before tipoff, so waiting could save a few hundred dollars. But there's no sign it will get back near $1,000, and you could lose the cheaper seats.

My recommendation: If you definitely want to go, buy now or set a firm maximum, say about $1,800, and buy as soon as a ticket at or under it appears. Only wait until close to tipoff if you're fine with missing the game.

These prices are unusually high for a regular-season game, and they cover TickPick only. StubHub may have cheaper listings right now, and I can check its current listings if you'd like.