Comments on: If games are missed, don’t expect fans to come rushing back

By: Kurt Helin

Kurt Helin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:16:56 +0000

No. The owners make their money in the playoffs.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:14:31 +0000

Overall attendance was down last season for the second consecutive season. And they had to severely discount ticket prices to keep attendance from falling even further which is what led to ticket revenue falling over $100 million. These are not positive trends. 90% of your seats being filled doesn’t do much for you if the people aren’t paying hardly anything to be there. Free concerts at the park draw plenty of people, too, but they don’t make anybody rich.

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:52:20 +0000

And just to point out your argument, the NBA is losing money because they are paying crazy high salaries that are doing nothing but going up and up.

Arena capacity was at or above 90% last year (on average) for the 7th straight year. You are right, fans aren’t coming to the games…….

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:46:32 +0000

You are entitled to your opinion. But come time for games to start you will see the same attendance numbers in this coming season as you did in the last.

The NBA as well as the media will tell you that the NBA is coming off record numbers last year. Granted it was because of the Heat drama but that drama isn’t going to change.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:54:55 +0000

Not sure what league you’ve been watching, savocabol1, but it clearly hasn’t been the NBA. Fans haven’t been rushing to games for years–that’s why over half the teams are losing money and most every arena has tons of open seats every game.

Football totally eclipses the NBA even with many people who consider themselves basketball fans. And there’s always college ball to help fill the void. It also doesn’t help them that everyone openly acknowledges the first few months of the regular season are meaningless.

By: cbaber26

cbaber26 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:11:42 +0000

just a thought, the NBA playoffs seem to frag on forever, theyre at least a month long with all of the off days. Is there any talk about making up missed games at the end of the season and shortening the absurdly long playoff schedule?

By: savocabol1

savocabol1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:57:13 +0000

You are dead wrong. When the NBA comes back fans will rush to games just like they did in the past. There will be no difference.

I hope you write an article about attendance when this is all said and done and the games are back on….you won’t though.

By: asublimeday

asublimeday — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:01:15 +0000

Amen. The arrogance of the owners and greed of the players is very off-putting. As much as I love my bulls, I’m not going to be stepped on like a commodity.

By: bravin4evr

bravin4evr — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:03:57 +0000

David Stern is as big of an ass as Roger Goodell. If Stern allows this season to be canceled everyone will lose more than some games! Look how long it took for hockey fans to come back.