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The Pistons have restricted purchases for all possible home games of the matchup (Games 3, 4, and 6) to those who have a credit card billing address located in "Michigan and in certain parts of Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, Canada."

Knicks fans are notorious for traveling well, and have recently made some road arenas sound like Madison Square Garden, including during last season's first-round games against the 76ers in Philadelphia.

45 comments

  1. hell yeah. those new yorkers can overpay to get into the garden like the rest of us.

  5. “Pistons want to make sure attendees are pistons fans and not overwhelmingly Knicks fans amid the first playoff appearance in years.” Alright

  6. Good. Every team should do this. Can’t control the secondary market, but you gotta do what you can.

  7. This will help stop scalpers and insure home fans of a team that hasn’t reached the playoffs in years will finally get to watch their team in the post season.

  10. Sucks for die hard Piston fans no longer living in the state who wanna travel for the playoffs but makes sense

  11. I hope the Thunder don’t do this, I’m planning on flying to OKC for game 1 of the WCF (if they make it that far).

  13. idk why this isn’t normalized in basketball when in soccer every team sells most of their tickets to their home fans and the rest is allocated to the away fans

  14. This reminds me of the Sixers vs Knicks series last year where the home games for the Sixers were filled with Knicks fans

  15. Hell yea, go Pistons. Outside of my own team, none I’m pullin for hard to win their 1st round matchup.

  16. Rich New Yorkers about to buy a house in Michigan just to get playoff tickets. It will be cheaper than going to the garden.

  17. There are so many teams across professional sports that do this. Why do people continue to act like it’s noteworthy?

  18. If I could afford it, good thing my permanent address is still in NW Ohio lol even though I haven’t lived in the state for a decade

  19. Thunder are doing it too it seems also. Unless you’re debit/credit card has an address listed in Oklahoma and I think a few other near states without teams, you’ll have to buy third party

  20. That’s gotta suck for the diehard piston fan from ny who waited years for this day

  25. That’s very unfair to the fans that aren’t in Michigan. If the Pels did that I’d be pissed

  30. This only works if those fans don’t sell on the secondary market. MSG tickets are expensive. Could be about the same price for a NYK fan to attend a game in Detroit. 

  31. Lmao well Philly is about 1/8th the distance so, yeah that’s not surprising

  32. I’m getting mad as reading the headline then oh that makes sense, let the fans buy tickets

  33. Pistons playoff basketball is actually back. And I meana real playoffs, not being the 8th seed waiting to swept.

  34. Way to screw over pistons fans who were planning to travel and can’t buy tickets now

  37. I fucking love it. However my section where the tickets are normally $70-$80 cost like $300 now. I don’t do nose bleeds so I might have to sit this one out. If we make the second round I’m going though

  39. I get why they’re doing it, and I also don’t plan on trying to go this year, since I’m about to head to Vegas for Wrestlemania, but I’m a native Michigander who lives in the south now, and I would have been super bummed out if I wanted to make the trip and was barred from buying tickets. I suppose I could have just had a relative in Michigan buy a ticket for me, but still.

  42. If you can steal a porch in Detroit you can steal a home come playoffs. Right?

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