NEW YORK — Linsanity has carried over to the secondary ticket market.
The Los Angeles Lakers are making their annual visit to Madison Square Garden this evening, and people trying to score tickets have a different motivation than usual this time around.
Instead of paying premium prices to see Kobe Bryant, they are forking over extra dough to see Jeremy Lin (whose popularity is probably about third right now among New York athletes, training only Eli Manning and Derek Jeter.)
Since Tuesday, when Lin outplayed John Wall and had the first dunk of his NBA career, ticket prices for the Lakers-Knicks game have increased 23 percent.
The average price for tickets to Knicks home games is $237.
The average price for tonight’s game has risen to $598.
If you want to attend the game in person, TicketsNow is offering seats for as low as $131.
If you are in the New York area, click here to see what is available ticket-wise, and you can be a first-person witness to Linsanity, Chapter IV. (You get to see Kobe, too).
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