Miami's on board with the Linsanity. As Jeremy Lin leads the New York Knicks into American Airlines Arena tonight, South Beach residents have paid an average $249.71 to see the Big Three weather the Lin-derstorm (sorry, that doesn't work very well). That's double the price of the average home game ticket sold for Miami Heat home games ($124.60 average) on the secondary market. In fact, tonight's game is the Heat's most expensive home game for the abbreviated 2011-2012 season.

As Expensive as the NBA Finals?

Tonight's game is the tenth most expensive Miami Heat home game since 2009 (when SeatGeek started tracking data). This game is in rarified company as it's the third most expensive regular season game, behind the March 10th, 2011 game vs. the Los Angeles Lakers ($322.89) and the October 29th, 2010 game vs. the Orlando Magic ($298.84). The most expensive game tracked by SeatGeek is last years NBA Finals Game Six against the Dallas Mavericks ($565.76), where the Mavs walked away with their first NBA title.

Ticket Analysis for Tonight's Game

Perhaps this is an NBA Eastern Conference Finals preview, and the demand shows it on the secondary ticket market. The average ticket price for tonight's game before Jeremy Lin's breakout game against the New Jersey Nets was $194.90. Since February 4th, prices are averaging $281.30 or 44.33% more expensive.

However, South Beach didn't jump on board right away, perhaps dismissing Jeremy Lin's breakout play as a flash in the pan. Coupled with Carmelo Anthony's injury on February 8th and Amar'e Stoudamire attending family matters in regards to his brother's death, tickets sold well below average, selling at $166.43, a drop of 37.26% from average price.

In spite of questionable returns from the Knicks big stars, Miami hit JLin fever pitch with average prices shooting up to $222.86 the week of February 12th - 18th.

Tickets have shot up tremendously since the New York Knicks win against the Dallas Mavericks. The average ticket price for this week is $385.40, an price increase of 72.90% in the past week.

Not only has average ticket price increase, but also volume has multiplied as well. During the past two weeks of Linsanity, ticket sales increased nearly threefold (276.06% increase in volume).

New York Knicks vs. Miami Heat Tickets

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The love (and legend) of Jeremy Lin continues to grow. At the rate things are going, people will be referring to February 14th as the day that Jeremy Lin hit the first of his (hopefully) many buzzer-beaters. Jeremy Lin self-admitted to a poor first half and attributed his teammates for really lifting him up until he could take the reins, scoring the last six points which included a great three point play followed by a devastating three-pointer leaving 0.5 seconds on the clock.

Jeremy Lin has set a record for the most points scored in five starts (131), surpassing the Great Aristotle's debut back in 1992-1993 for the Orlando Magic. And he's the toast of not only New York City and all Knicks fans, but getting a lot of love from all over world, including from the Lakers.

And for those of you looking to get tickets to the game tonight, hopefully you were all very bullish about him. After the buzzer beater, tickets are already beginning to skyrocket on the secondary market.

And that's not because people are excited to see the Kings. It's a universal trend among all other Knicks home games. The time to buy is now, that's for sure. As long as the Knicks keep winning, the prices are going to continue to fly sky high.

Let us know if you're going to see if the Knicks are going to go "Linfinity and Beyond" with Jeremy leading the way. Hit us up @SeatGeek while you're at the game. If we could afford to be at the game, we'd be live casting for ya'll!

New York Knicks Tickets 2012

Here at SeatGeek, we're as excited about the emergence of Knicks rookie Jeremy Lin as everyone else. We wanted to do what we could to help a few lucky fans participate in the Linsanity firsthand, so we're pleased to announce that we'll be giving away two free tickets to this Friday's Knicks-Hornets game!

There are two simple ways to enter into the contest for these tickets:

1) +1 and comment on our Google+ page

2) Like and comment on our Facebook page.

Also, if you're ever searching for NBA tickets, don't forget that SeatGeek can help you unearth the best deals to see your any NBA team in action.

Best of luck!

At SeatGeek, we were sad to read this story in the Salt Lake Tribune that Karl Malone--a former Utah Jazz legend and NBA Hall of Famer--was forced to buy his own ticket to a Jazz game last February played in the wake of Jerry Sloan's dismissal as the Jazz coach.

According to the Tribune:

What happened to Sloan had festered inside Malone for long enough. In the immediate aftermath, he came to Utah to express concern, buying his own ticket to the next game at EnergySolutions Arena via a scalper because the Jazz had told him there were no tickets available for him, and spoke to reporters.

In light of this report that an NBA legend wasn't able to easily obtain tickets to see the very team he helped bring to prominence, we here at SeatGeek felt compelled to offer our assistance.

As such, we want to formally extend Mr. Malone the offer of four (4) lower-level tickets to any Jazz home game this season, as well as four (4) lower-level Jazz tickets to be donated to the charity of Mr. Malone's choosing.

At SeatGeek, we’re all about making sure that fans—from the layman to the Mailman—have easy access to the best deals on tickets to see their favorite teams, so we are serious in this offer and hope to soon send Mr. Malone and his favorite charity some great seats to see the Jazz in action this season.