The New York Knicks -- more formally known as the New York Knickerbockers -- ply their trade in the National Basketball Association in New York City, playing at Madison Square Garden. Over the course of their history, the Knicks have won two championships in the NBA and eight conference titles along with nine division titles. They play in the league's Eastern Conference, Atlantic Division. There have been plenty of New York Knicks tickets sold over the years.

The New York Knicks were founded in 1946, and is one of only two teams of the original National Basketball Association to still be located and playing basketball in the city of its birth, the other team being the Boston Celtics. The team joined the new national basketball Association, coming over from the old Basketball Association of America when the two leagues merged in 1946. Sales of New York Knicks tickets were strong right off the bat.

Initially upon joining the NBA, the New York Knicks were consistent contenders for postseason action, and in the first decade upon joining the league would make the NBA finals for three consecutive years (1951-1953), along the way selling huge numbers of New York Knicks tickets every night. They would continue to be good playoff performers and would make the postseason for three more years, including in 1955.

The first half of the 1960s could best be described as being somewhat of a challenge for the New York Knicks, and they could not help but find themselves finishing last in their division for several of those years, though sales of New York Knicks tickets remained good. Times would soon get better, though, as a series of strong drafts -- including for future Hall Of Famer Willis Reed -- would soon send a back up to the ranks of the elite.

Additionally, other draft picks and players such as Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley and Dave DeBusschere would soon see to the New York Knicks taking their first championship in 1970. The first half of the 1970s, in fact, would see them contending for the championship on several occasions and would also see them return to form in 1974, when they would win it all one more time while also continuing to sell large numbers of New York Knicks tickets.

Though the Knicks would not win another championship it is still the case that they contended for many of the years and decades since, and fielded more than a few strong teams during the time of another future Hall Of Famer, Patrick Ewing. The big center would also benefit from the help of other outstanding players like Larry Johnson and Allan Houston and many a league team feared going into Madison Square Garden to play the New York Knicks, who could always count on fans snapping up plenty of New York Knicks tickets and cheering them on.

Much of the new millennium has been spent on coming up with a winning formula that will propel the Knicks into the new upcoming decade and by all indications the team seems poised to finally begin putting it all together, which will give their diehard fans even more of a reason to continue buying New York Knicks tickets.

Over the last two seasons and Knicks have continued to improve, adding more than nine wins from one season to the next and also improving at the box office, or sales of New York Knicks tickets have remained very good. Fresh young legs in the form of players like new draft players Jordan Hill and Toney Douglas promised to supplement a team that finished only seven games out of postseason play in 2009. Given the volatile nature of league play, a person wouldn't be going wrong if he laid down a bet on the New York Knicks to make the postseason.