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For the first two quarters, the upper level was much fuller than the lower levels. In fact the lower level was embarrassingly empty.

Lots of conclusions can be drawn from this, but I think it shows that the tickets are way overpriced, but people still want to go to games.

That's funny I thought it was the other way around. To me it appeared that no one was sitting up in the second level. When players would go to take FT's, the upper level looked empty and dark. Maybe I was just seeing something else..

I just saw you went to the game....I was watching in on tv so I guess I was seeing something different. But the upper level did look pretty dark on tv.

After halftime the lower level was fuller, and the upper level emptier.

So a lot of people must have been moving down to the better seats, or the rich people started showing up.

one thing to keep in mind about lower level seats-

A pretty good percentage of those are allotted to corporate sponsors of the team. For example, Coca Cola here in Charlotte gets (as part of their agreement with the team) a block of four courtside seats, 8 mid-lower bowl seats, and another 4 behind one basket.

Some games those seats go empty, simply because there isn't some client or customer who wants to go, and no one within the office claims them.

So in that case, the seats aren't going "unsold", they are already reserved, just not occupied.

something to consider when eyeballing lower bowl attendance.

^^^^Yep

When I was a starving student and dating my current wife we bought a cheap ticket package in the nose bleeds behind the basket. I think at the time they were 8 bucks a seat.

But every game we went to except one there were 6 seats in the 7th row between the free throw line and the 3pt line that were empty.

We'd head down there between the first and second quarter so the ushers wouldn't check our tickets they would just think we got up for a hotdog or something.

Those seats rocked, best ticket package I never bought.

I assume those seat were owned by a corporation that didn't give the tickets out to anyone.

yeah went to last nights game got lower bowel dead center for 40 each and the entire row was almost empty

Seattle deserves to have a good team, cause the fans are there supporting......