Taylor Swift’s courtside seat from Cavs-Knicks game sells for $7,000

The Cleveland Cavaliers and memorabilia company The Realest auctioned off the courtside chairs from Eastern Conference Finals Games 3 and 4 against the New York Knicks at Rocket Arena that Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Ben Stiller and Machine Gun Kelly sat in. The chair used by Swift sold for the highest price by a considerable margin at $7,000. 

Here are the final prices for each:

Swift’s chair for Game 3: $7,000
Jenner’s chair for Game 4: $1,505
Kelce’s chair for Game 3: $1,405
Chalamet’s chair for Game 4: $1,202
Stiller’s chair for Game 4: $732
MGK’s chair for Game 4: $635

The chairs were each certified as genuine through “The Realest’s witness-based and tamper-proof TRuEST™ authentication system.” The auction pages for the chairs used by Swift and Kelce did not identify them by name, as they did for every other celebrity, instead identifying Swift as “one of the biggest music artists in the world and a 14-time Grammy Award winner” and Kelce as “a Kansas City Super Bowl champion and Cleveland Heights native.”

Kelce, a Cavaliers fan, chugged a beer while standing in front of a seated Swift in an attempt to energize the Cavs’ home crowd during Game 3. There’s no word of any beer stains on Swift’s and Kelce’s seats. In Game 4, MGK playfully snatched a Knicks fan’s hat from the second row and threw it to the floor. Chalamet, Jenner and Stiller invaded Rocket Arena to support the Knicks for Game 4, with Chalamet hugging guard Jalen Brunson after New York completed the sweep.

Other items auctioned off included the Game 3 used basketball and the nets used in each Cleveland-hosted game from the Eastern Conference finals.

The Cavaliers first announced their partnership with The Realest in February. The memorabilia company also has deals with the Philadelphia Eagles, MLS, the Big Ten, the MLB Players Association and more. It was founded by Scott Keeney, better known as DJ Skee, and has sold other unusual pieces of memorabilia, such as $50 pints of snow from the Eagles’ 2025 NFL playoff win over the Los Angeles Rams and a chair that Caitlin Clark sat on during a Big Ten Tournament game when she played for the University of Iowa that sold for $3,722 at auction in 2024.

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