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The New York Knicks basketball team came over from the old Basketball Association of America when Natalie merged with the new NBA during that 1946 inaugural season. For most of its first decade of existence, the team was fairly successful, making the NBA finals for three straight years starting in 1951 and running through 1953. Sales of New York Knicks tickets during this timeframe were exceptional. They would also make the playoffs three more times, in 1955 and 1956 in addition to 1959.
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About The New York Knicks
The first half of the 1960s would prove to be somewhat challenging for the team playing out of Madison Square Garden, and they would struggle to stay out of last place in each of those years. In fact, it was during 1962 that future Hall of Famer Wilt "the Stilt” Chamberlain would pour in 100 points in a single game against the team. Despite all this, sales of New York Knicks tickets would still be very healthy.
However, things would soon start to turn around, beginning in the 1964 draft when the New York Knicks would select eventual superstar and Hall of Famer Willis Reed. Also, the Knicks would strategically draft or otherwise sign numerous other players including Walt Frazier (another future Hall of Famer) and Bill Bradley along with obtaining via trade from the Detroit Pistons star player Dave DeBusschere. Such signings couldn't fail but to go noticed by fans, who snapped up New York Knicks tickets with abandon.
All these moves would pay off handsomely, with the Knicks winning the first of their two championships in 1970 and then a second one in 1973. Eventually, the team would choose to rebuild and rearm itself over the years and would select in the 1985 draft lottery a center of Georgetown University named Patrick Ewing. Responding to the impact of the future Hall of Famer being drafted by a then-struggling Knicks team, sales of New York Knicks tickets once again took off.
This move plus others would lead the team to an eventual return to the upper division and even the ranks of the elite in the NBA, where it would when four division titles and two conference championships between 1989 and 1999 in addition to numerous other postseason appearances, along the way selling tons of New York Knicks tickets.
The new millennium has proven to be one of challenge for the Knicks go they have never failed to go out every night and put a hard-working team out on the floor, and even making the playoffs in 2004. A strong 2009 series of draft picks -- including the selection of projected starters Jordan Hill and Toney Douglas -- along with strong leadership from head coach Mike D’Antoni, who helmed very strong Phoenix Suns teams, promises a return to the kind of winning basketball that the New York Knicks have delivered year in and year out over the course of the team's history. Sales of New York Knicks tickets are projected to be very strong.
