So should we expect to see a half empty arena tonight?

[EricB]

Damn, the arena looks empty. That's pathetic.

Game started at 7.

People don't get home till about 6 FROM WORK.

Good god.

[Spurs Brazil]

Late arriving crowd as is typical for a 7pm start. Attendance announced as a sellout with the new number, 18,581. It felt and looked like a sellout or real close. The new Fan Zone on the balcony level is real nice and was packed all night. So was Headlines downstairs.

More 'buzz' from beginning to end than any regular season game in recent memory.

On TV I noticed this too. In the 1st half there were a lot of empty sits but in the 3rd quarter it looked it was packed.

[Mel_13]

On TV I noticed this too. In the 1st half there were a lot of empty sits but in the 3rd quarter it looked it was packed.

In 07-08, if memory serves, the Spurs moved their default start time from 7:30 to 7:00 to make it more family friendly. After a year of half empty first quarters, they went back to 7:30.

But these 7:00 weeknight games have always had late-arriving crowds.

[NRHector]

It was a sold out according to Mike Taylor, it was 18000 +. Go AirForce

[SpursFanATL]

On TV I noticed this too. In the 1st half there were a lot of empty sits but in the 3rd quarter it looked it was packed.

Yeah, it was good to see that.


As far as when a games sells out, I couldn't give a either, but based on what was available yesterday morning, it looked like there was a long way to go. Glad to see the place mostly full by halftime.

It would have been lame for it to look like a WNBA crowd on opening night.

[Buddy Holly]

It would have been lame for it to look like a WNBA crowd on opening night.

If you actually thought that would happen....

[LoveMySpurs]

Thanks a lot! Did you get to watch any games on AFN when you were in Iraq? When I was in the Desert back in 03' I watched the spurs win the championship at like 6 in the morning. I stayed up every night to watch all the playoff games, totally worth it. Then in the beginning of this year when I went to Iraq they only showed like 2 games on AFN.

I had fun watching the 2003 Playoffs/Finals when I was deployed to Landstuhl Germany- got up early to watch the games before heading to work. I still associate the play offs with eating cereal and drinking coffee. AFN showed all the games if you were willing to watch them in the middle of the night!

[kobyz]

i hope all games this season sells out, after the great summer, the money that had been spend and all the work that made the Spurs deserve the best support they could get!

[SequSpur]

i hope all games this season sells out, after the great summer, the money that had been spend and all the work that made the Spurs deserve the best support they could get!

As long as Bonner starts, they will struggle to sell tickets. Fact.