"Dramatically Less Accessible To The Average Fan": Knicks Finals Tickets At MSG Sell From $3K To $280K For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are heading to the NBA Finals. For fans, it's a dream decades in the making. For anyone hoping to attend a game at Madison Square Garden, however, that dream comes with a staggering price tag in the thousands of dollars. The 2026 NBA Finals betwe...
"Dramatically Less Accessible To The Average Fan": Knicks Finals Tickets At MSG Sell From $3K To $280K For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are heading to the NBA Finals. For fans, it's a dream decades in the making. For anyone hoping to attend a game at Madison Square Garden, however, that dream comes with a staggering price tag in the thousands of dollars. The 2026 NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs have produced some of the most expensive basketball tickets ever recorded. Secondary-market prices have surged to levels that rival — and in some cases exceed — major championship events such as the Super Bowl. The cheapest tickets available for Knicks home games in the Finals have generally been listed between $3,600 and $4,100. Reports from TickPick, SeatGeek, and other ticket marketplaces showed get-in prices exceeding $3,800 for some Madison Square Garden games, while average ticket prices in New York have hovered around $6,000. Even compared with the already-expensive games in San Antonio, Madison Square Garden stands in a category of its own. While some Spurs home games have had entry prices closer to $1,200-$2,000, New York's home games have consistently commanded much higher premiums. The biggest shock has come at the luxury end of the market. One pair of courtside Knicks Finals tickets reportedly sold for nearly $280,000 on the secondary market. Individual premium seats have been listed for well into six figures, with some season-ticket holders reportedly considering offers approaching $100,000 per seat. To put that into perspective, the cost of sitting courtside for a Knicks Finals game can exceed the price of a luxury automobile or a down payment on a home in many parts of the United States. Several factors are driving the unprecedented demand. First, the Knicks have not appeared in the NBA Finals since 1999, creating nearly three decades of pent-up demand among one of sports' largest fan bases. Second, Madison Squ...
May Lim/iStock via Getty Images Real estate stocks are showing improving earnings momentum as analysts raise profit expectations across several REIT categories, including data centers, specialty properties, outdoor advertising, and timberlands. Strong EPS revision trends are often closely monitored by investors because upward earnings estimate revisions can signal improving occupancy trends, resil...
May Lim/iStock via Getty Images Real estate stocks are showing improving earnings momentum as analysts raise profit expectations across several REIT categories, including data centers, specialty properties, outdoor advertising, and timberlands. Strong EPS revision trends are often closely monitored by investors because upward earnings estimate revisions can signal improving occupancy trends, resilient property demand, and stronger operating performance. Seeking Alpha’s EPS Revision Quant Grades rank stocks based on changes in analysts’ earnings estimates using a grading scale that ranges from F to A+. The latest real estate sector screen highlights a diverse group of REITs, with all companies on the list earning the highest possible A+ EPS Revision Grade. Leading the rankings is Digital Realty Trust ( DLR ), a major data center REIT benefiting from continued demand tied to cloud computing and AI infrastructure growth. EPR Properties ( EPR ) and Iron Mountain ( IRM ) follow closely behind, also earning A+ EPS Revision Grades while representing the experiential real estate and information storage segments of the market. The list further includes OUTFRONT Media ( OUT ), which operates in the outdoor advertising REIT space, alongside timber-focused REITs Rayonier ( RYN ) and Weyerhaeuser ( WY ). Together, the group reflects improving earnings expectations across several specialized corners of the real estate sector. The screen highlights the growing diversity within REIT investing, spanning digital infrastructure, entertainment properties, advertising assets, and timberland operations. Despite operating in very different real estate categories, all six companies currently maintain top-tier earnings revision grades. Seeking Alpha’s Quant system evaluates stocks using multiple factors including valuation, growth, profitability, momentum, and earnings revisions. EPS Revision Grades specifically track changes in analysts’ earnings expectations over time, with stronger grade...
US president says he would ‘like to meet’ Mojtaba Khamenei, who US officials have previously said was injured in attacks, and says Iran has said it will not have a nuclear weapon Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Donald Trump has claimed Iran has agreed it will not have a nuclear weapon and that the country’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei,...
US president says he would ‘like to meet’ Mojtaba Khamenei, who US officials have previously said was injured in attacks, and says Iran has said it will not have a nuclear weapon Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Donald Trump has claimed Iran has agreed it will not have a nuclear weapon and that the country’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is involved in negotiations with the US. One person was killed and several people were injured in an Iranian drone attack that targeted Kuwait’s airport, according to authorities and state media. Flights were suspended this morning but some later resumed after the country’s civil aviation authority said it assessed the damage at the airport. The attack came hours after US forces fired a Hellfire missile to disable a tanker attempting to break through the American blockade of the strait of Hormuz , and later said they repelled Iranian reprisal attacks in the region and attacked sites on Iran’s Qeshm Island. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it attacked the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain with missiles and drones in response to the strike on Qeshm, a claim the US military’s Central Command (Centcom) denied. Centcom said two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait “fell short or broke apart enroute”, and that three missiles targeting Bahrain were intercepted by US and Bahrain. US forces also said they shot down three one-way attack drones “launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters” but gave no further details. Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon , pressing its campaign against Hezbollah a day after Donald Trump asked Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut to avert further escalation in the three-month-old war. Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire hit south Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, Lebanese state media reported. Israel’s military ordered residents of the city of Nabatieh, a m...