How Many New York Knicks Fans Are There?

There is no definitive census of New York Knicks fans. Hyperset measures the size and digital reach of the fanbase using search demand, international interest, YouTube Search activity and official-site visibility.

New York Knicks currently records about 1.5M monthly searches in United States, ranking #9 among 30 NBA teams in the tracked dataset. Its YouTube Search Interest Index is 123.3 (Los Angeles Lakers = 100), ranking #1 in the league comparison.

How Popular Is New York Knicks?

1.5MUnited States monthly search demand
#9NBA Google demand rank
123.3YouTube Search Interest Index · Los Angeles Lakers = 100

Digital Position Within the NBA

#9Google search demand
#1YouTube search interest
#18Official-site organic traffic

New York Knicks Fanbase & Search Demand

Audience Signals

Worldwide monthly search demand11.9M
Year-on-year search change+1,296.0%
3-month search momentum-84.1%

New York Knicks Website & Digital Audience

Estimated official-site organic traffic20.7K
YouTube owned-channel visibility21.1%
Best matched YouTube result#6
Official domainknicks.com

How Has Interest in the New York Knicks Changed?

13 months of stored monthly Google search-demand history.

56.6M 851.0K Sep 2025 Sep 2026
View monthly source data
MonthSearch demand
September 202611,880,000
August 2026974,000
July 20261,770,000
June 202656,600,000
May 202625,400,000
April 202610,220,000
March 20266,330,000
February 20265,920,000
January 20265,920,000
December 20258,360,000
November 20255,920,000
October 20253,740,000
September 2025851,000

Compare New York Knicks with Cleveland Cavaliers

The next team in Hyperset’s live NBA comparison ring, ordered by current United States search demand.

Metric
New York Knicks
Cleveland Cavaliers
Monthly search demand
1.5M
1.2M
Google demand rank
#9
#10
YouTube Search Interest
123.3
36.0
YouTube interest rank
#1
#13
Official-site traffic rank
#18
#11

New York Knicks Fanbase Data & Methodology

Search-demand figures are estimates for searches of the full team name, not fan counts. YouTube Search Interest is a relative Google Trends index normalised so Los Angeles Lakers = 100. Official-site traffic is a modelled third-party estimate for the whole domain, not first-party analytics. YouTube owned-channel visibility is an automated channel-name matching proxy from the first 20 YouTube result blocks, not a verified ownership measure.

Sources: Google Ads search-volume estimates, modelled official-domain visibility estimates, Google Trends YouTube Search, and YouTube organic search-result data. Latest stored update: 1 September 2026.

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US geographic search interest

Where are the New York Knicks searched most in the US?

Competitive search strength for New York Knicks across US states over the latest 30-day NBA comparison window. A value of 100 means the team leads that state; lower values show its search-interest score relative to the state leader. States without enough comparable source data are shown in grey.

View state-level competitive strength
StateRelative strengthNBA rank
New York100.0#1
New Jersey97.7#2
Maryland50.0#5
Washington46.6#11
Indiana42.7#3
Ohio38.6#6
Virginia37.6#13
Pennsylvania28.0#11
Illinois19.0#4
Arizona14.1#8
Utah11.8#2
Nevada9.9#18
Georgia8.1#15
Minnesota8.0#18
Michigan6.1#18
Massachusetts5.9#16
Texas4.6#18
Oregon4.5#18

Source: search-interest data from the NBA 30-day competition comparison. Values show each team’s score relative to the leading NBA team in that state; 100 means state leader. This is comparative search interest, not monthly search volume or a fan count.

Last Updated: September 28, 2026 at 10:53 pm