Comments on: NBA season ticket sales up to start season

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:20:21 +0000

Problem is, this is double talk. If the 50,000 in “new” season tickets this year is 40% above last year, that means there were about 36,000 sold last year. So it’s an increase of just 14,000 over the whole league, or a few hundred per team.
More importantly, if the season ticket renewal rate is 80% – what does that mean in terms of the number of tickets? I don’t know exactly, but if the average team has 10,000 season tickets, that’s over 300,000 season tickets league wide. An 80% renewal means 240,000 renewed, which would mean that about 60,000 dropped out. So the 50,000 “new” season tickets sold doesn’t quite cover those who left. Bottom line: ticket sales are looking flat from last year.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:19:01 +0000

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:57:22 +0000

This is a big eff you to all of the NBA haters out there. Take that, haters, which is why it’s so annoying listening to their NBA doomsday predictions based on perceptions, preconceived notions etc.
This just proves the NBA is doing more than fine. And this doesn’t even take into account the league’s popularity outside the U.S. All of the preseason games that will be played in Europe and China in the next couple of weeks have been sold out since a long time, with a new wave of tickets just being released due to the high tickets demand.