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It's not exactly news that the NBA has been in serious financial trouble for some time, but attendance has now gotten so bad that they're selling seats for ten cents each.
I'll still have to pass, thanks. As I've stated previously, every professional basketball player in the country could spontaneously cease to exist I'd not notice anything had changed, so I'm not really the target market. I suspect, however, that many of the fans have grown tired of watching thugball. My father is a basketball fan, and even he has stated that he doesn't know what the NBA is playing these days, but it's certainly not basketball the way he learned the game.
Well, they can always convert those unused basketball arenas to mega-churches, which is what was done with The Summit here in Houston many years ago. More money in that business anyway.
I'll still have to pass, thanks. As I've stated previously, every professional basketball player in the country could spontaneously cease to exist I'd not notice anything had changed, so I'm not really the target market. I suspect, however, that many of the fans have grown tired of watching thugball. My father is a basketball fan, and even he has stated that he doesn't know what the NBA is playing these days, but it's certainly not basketball the way he learned the game.
Well, they can always convert those unused basketball arenas to mega-churches, which is what was done with The Summit here in Houston many years ago. More money in that business anyway.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:42
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I think a lot of this comes back on most of the pro sports today. They thought they could just keep raising salaries and and ticket prices and everyone in the business would be millionaires and the fans would just "take it". I would say that many of the seats at games today are owned by businesses, or corporations, at least the good seats are. The real fans can only afford upper deck, or spend a sizable amount of their paycheck on it. You can't take a family. If I took my family to a football game (four of us) after tickets, parking, food and one drink, I'm looking at around $230 dollars, and that is upper level two rows from the top. Or, I can spend about $50 and sit in front of my TV and drink beer and eat and see six games at the same time and have multiple views, and I am not cold or hot, or wet, or covered in beer from the drunk beside me.
There are few places where the fans still come out, and as long as those places exist, the pros will think they can treat the fans like crap and still make a mint.
I don't watch NBA because they don't try until the second half of the season and the playoffs are 3 months long, and last year 2 teams with losing records made the playoffs. Any playoff system that has losing teams in it is all about the money. (3 months! The damn regular season is barely six months long)
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