Exciting! ... Depressing

[ZonkertheBrainless]

yeah, NBA has become a victim of its own success. It gets high ratings, big advertising dollars, salary cap goes up, players get more money... and then ticket prices have to go up. All of a sudden you've got a bunch of stuffed shirts sitting in a larger and larger section of the arena and the energy just drains out.

It is interesting though... the caps game shows that there are people in this area who will make some noise at a sporting event. Maybe we need to have zards/caps double headers and give the caps fans free tickets.

[dobrojim]

yeah, NBA has become a victim of its own success. It gets high ratings, big advertising dollars, salary cap goes up, players get more money... and then ticket prices have to go up. All of a sudden you've got a bunch of stuffed shirts sitting in a larger and larger section of the arena and the energy just drains out.

It is interesting though... the caps game shows that there are people in this area who will make some noise at a sporting event. Maybe we need to have zards/caps double headers and give the caps fans free tickets.

commonly held fallacy

owners set ticket prices so as to maximize revenue. They will charge the amount that
they feel will yield them the highest $$$ no matter what the players make. The 2 things
are unrelated.

GREAT article in today's Post about how the Caps prevent or hold down attendance
by opp fans. The Wiz should definitely take note and do likewise.

Also right alongside that on page 2 today was a column on Wes, still the
youngest player to ever win MVP. Some of the facts mentioned in the
article are striking. Wes won the MVP in a year when Russell, Wilt, Oscar,
Hayes, West, ....the list goes on, were all in the league.
During Wes' playing years, the Bullets had the highest winning total in the NBA.
And Wes played C at a shorter height than Queenie boy plays SF. Really makes
wonder about Blair.