So how are you supposed to drop money on NBA tickets for a good matchup?
I just spent $1200 for 2 tickets to Cavs/Clippers(my 10 year old is a Lebron fan). He was fired up to see James with these great seats. I paid for it thinking there was no chance they would sit. They didn't play the night before and this was the FIRST game of a back to back.
Get to the game right before tip off and find out they aren't playing. Stadium was packed with out of town Cavs fans who paid big money and traveled to see Channing Frye get big minutes. Talked with people who drive from SF and ARZ for this game. They didn't know about it until really late too.
It was awful. Prime time game. Big matchup. And they just sit them and worst of all announce it late. Horseshit move by the Cavs especially doing it so late. GS and Spurs doing the same shit.
You can't count on getting what you paid for at NBA games. I won't do it again. We paid for something and they didn't deliver. Great business. I won't be back for another regular season game.
I hear Van Gundy went off about it all night. Good for him.
These guys suck. Coaches and teams suck too for doing it. I hope this hits them next time the TV deal is up.
Plus, it doesn't make sense for teams to completely burn out their players that they will need for lengthy playoffs when they know they are making the playoffs.
Fix the schedule, NBA. I'd say reduce it, but it's all about $ so that will never happen.
Mark a game down that you want to go to and try to get tickets day of. Not ideal, but it keeps you from having to blow money on something.
does it suck for Kwall? yes absolutely. do i feel bad? yes absolutely. I would be pissed as well.
that doesn't mean this is some indictment on the toughness of NBA players... or the product
Same, though its been that way for a while for me. I'm not a basketball purist, I'm fine not seeing the best players in the world play since they are a bunch of insufferable whiny cunts with few exceptions.
College ball just has the drama the NBA doesn't and the atmosphere can't be topped.
I could never economically justify that.
College Pride definitely makes for a better atmosphere, but that only goes so far. The NBA product is infinitely more interesting to watch for me.
To me that makes a grand total of basically 7 games the entire year worth watching.
College Pride definitely makes for a better atmosphere, but that only goes so far. The NBA product is infinitely more interesting to watch for me.
I agree, but only for a week in June.
To me that makes a grand total of basically 7 games the entire year worth watching.
...and that's what I end up watching, if at all. The Finals.
Warriors played the Wolves and Spurs back to back. Try and get the win against the worse team and rest for the tougher game - although they lost both.
Cavs playing Clips and Lakers. May as well ensure the win over the Lakers by letting the King reign and rest against the Clips. Makes perfect sense, especially in the analytics era that is driving the decision-making.
Jordan also sat out two seasons to go play minor league baseball.
It's a different game now.
But based on a 30 team league i'd cut the regular season from 82 to 76 games. Right now you play your division 4x, West 2x, and other divisions in the east sometimes 3 and sometimes 4. Just make it 3x against non division opponents. Schedule makers limit back-to-backs to 6-8 range over a season.
First round needs to go back to best of 5. I cant remember the last great 7 game first round series. Maybe there's 1 every 5 years. If there is its usually two mediocre teams in the East that lose in 5 in the next round anyway.
Have one or two wild card play-in games in both conferences to get some of that first round interest back - 7 plays 10 and 8 plays 9 in both conferences. One game sudden death on the higher seeds court.
I also feel like the NBA will go to 32 teams seattle and (cinci,vegas, kansas city, pitt, another cali etc.)
For 30 team league: 2 conferences 72 games
3x own conference
2x other conference
5 game first round
My favorite: 1 table play everyone twice. 58 games and in a 32 league team 62 games
Also...(no real disrespect to KWALL), but no player is worth that kind of money to see play.
Season ticket holders should just dump the season seats next year and just buy tickets to games on a one off basis. Maybe target the game after your star player sits.
I see a sports market crash at some point. When our economy gets in real bad shape and people just dont have the disposable income, then watch teams fold, salaries drop, etc etc. Hockey will be the first to go and it is a shame because those guys give 100% every night and most of them play for the love of the sport.
Sorry but this is just plain wrong. Hockey (for some damn reason) hasnt had the exponential revenue growth the other sports have had, is not dependent on the huge TV deals, and is not paying guys $25 million a year to pitch every 5-6 days.
Second, half the league sits in Canada which has already gone through its currency crisis. A U.S. recession would strengthen the looney and provide the league relative strength versus the 3 other sports.
No, without question, the first sport "to go" as the bubble bursts is baseball. I make a nice living but for the life of me cannot understand how they are able to get people to pay so much money for regular season baseball tickets, and the TV deals make absolutely no sense. Its like the networks are too lazy to put stuff on over the summer with better bottom line.
Teams may fail, salaries and ticket prices may be adjusted but the game won't go away.
Its just a question of which bubble will burst the loudest, and my educated guess is baseball.
Ugh I miss it
Jordan: 82, 82, 82.
Wilt: 82, 82, 82.
Stockton: 82, 82 82
Yeah, today players need rest because...
Just because.