NY Knicks watch parties back on Saturday as team looks to clinch NBA championship: All you need to know

Knicks fans are seen in celebrating in NYC and Radio City Music Hall.
Knicks fans in NYC, and Radio City Music Hall

The party is back on.

The Knicks will host three watch parties for fans Saturday as the team looks to secure the NBA championship in San Antonio.

Knicks fans will be able to get $10 tickets for the watch party at Radio City Music Hall, can procure free tickets for the party in Plaza33 outside the Mecca, or skate over to Wollman Rink in Central Park for another free, but ticketed, event.

Knicks fans celebrate during a watch party inside Central Park during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on June 10, 2026, in New York. AP Photo/Heather Khalifa

Fans can reserve their tickets for any of the three events starting at 10 a.m. EST, according to MSG.

Fans have until 10 a.m. EST on Saturday to reserve their tickets for any of the three events.

Knicks alumni are expected to at the events.

The Plaza33 watch party permit Saturday has a maximum of 3,000 attendees and will take place inside an NYPD “frozen zone.”

Only ticketed fans will be permitted entry and will have to go through security checkpoints no later than 8:30 p.m., according to MSG.

The 3,000 permitted fans is about two thousand more fans than were approved for the ultimately scrapped Game 4 watch party, which was canceled by MSG after the city granted just 1,000 spots for the popular events.

Knicks owner James Dolan blamed Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for failing to accommodate the masses in an interview on sports radio WFAN on Wednesday.

“They have never managed anything like this before and it’s like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches coming out the sides,” he said.

Knicks fans can get $10 tickets for the watch party at Radio City Music Hall as the team looks to clinch the NBA championship in San Antonio. Getty Images
Fans attend a Knicks watch party at SOB’s in the West Village during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. William C Lopez/NY Post

Dolan further claimed that Mayor Mamdani was “not a Knicks fan.”

MSG has complained that the limited capacity of the watch parties ices out ten of thousands of fans from celebrating the possible championship.

Previous watch parties did not require tickets or security screenings.  

The first Finals watch party to be canceled was the celebration for Game 3, which was called off due to security concerns surrounding the attendance of President Donald Trump.

Some watch parties across the city have turned violent.

A 17-year-old boy was beaten into a coma by a deranged San Antonio fan shouting “Spurs in 7” at W 35th and 8th Avenue after the historic Game 4 comeback victory at MSG on Wednesday.

Other post-Game 4 hijinks included a wild mob launching chairs at a Midtown Five Guys employee, leaving him bloodied and damaging the chain burger joint.