San Antonio is not a very big sports town. The city loves the spurs but won't neccesarily pay to see them.
Traffic was delayed longer than usual. What usually takes about 20 minutes to get to arena was well over 50 minutes. I left house at 7 and didn’t get to my seat until 8. Waited until halftime to hit concession stand and that alone was 15 minutes. These shorter halftime periods make it difficult to use restroom, get beer and food in 12 minutes.
Couple of years ago, that looks like De'Marre Carrol on the Raps but point taken.Yep, this is from playoff game last year, looks a lot like the spurs games.
http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance
Spurs 13th in attendance with 18,300 people per home game, which is apparently 99% capacity.
Doesn't look like it though tbh
There was a super bad traffic delay with another event happening in the Freeman Coliseum next door. However there is no doubt the market for tickets, even against a Texas rival, has really slowed down. Someone mentioned how Rockets fans would buy up a lot of seats in years gone by, but that has slowed down considerably. The house looked pretty good as the game went on, but there were a lot of tickets for sale before the game.
Tickets are sold. Folks that bought them just don't attend though.
Last years playoffs 2017, not last season playoffs.
lol fake news. this is what every game looks like 30 seconds into the 3rd quarter. but yeah that was a pathetic showing in a nationally televised game.Yep, this is from playoff game last year, looks a lot like the spurs games.
My company has a corporate floor level box in another city and you spend half the time inside grabbing drinks / eating / chilling / watching more important sporting events if they’re on (last year had a Houston client in town and skipped half a Rockets game to watch the World Series). Which I found sacreligious but people who were there from my company said they really had no choice in the matter.
Remember for the people paying the big bucks, it’s not about watching the game for the most part but about the exclusive experience. You can’t just give those seats away if they’re a bit late.
Alot of people hang out in the bar areas. When the arena was upgraded a couple yrs ago the floor level had private rooms with bars . Basically to wine and dine. I'm sure alot of them just go there and rather than the seats. My relative has season tix the bottom rows and ppl around mainly drink and watch the game at the rock n brew and outside. Real dumb imo.
Its like rich people burning food when there is a food shelter next door. Its what some of the rich do. Part of the experience is to throw scraps or make sure no one else gets a tadte.
Ya wtf was that? Its a game against Houston. Place should've been packed.
Could the Spurs offer a promotion some sort of "free burritos delivered to your seat at the start of the 3rd qtr" for the absentee crowd?
they could obviously do an on call system where you have to check in 24hours before to claim the seat otherwise they will resell it cheap and give a partial refund.
They should also let you order drinks on a smartphone and have it delivered to at least the main aisles. But at the end of the day, the seats suck and people are going to want to walk around.
Wow fifty degrees. I hope they don't close the highways today.
City didn't pay for it, the county did on the land they owned next to Freeman Colosseum. The city was trying to tie their arena proposal into a huge expansion of the convention center and the Spurs were afraid that project being tacked on would kill them in the vote so they went with the county's plan. The city wanted to put the arena next to the Alamodome.
who are they going to pay money to watch? bryn forbes? LMA and his bad body language? patty mills? stop being a star repellent so players actually want to come here in their prime...not when theyre washed
Yeah, they need toput it back closer to downtown or at least near the Alamodome again.
There it is again. You have a clinical hatred of LMA. Kawhi is a and his leaving had next to nothing to do with LMA. You sound incredibly ass-pained.
there’s so little to do in sa that those seats get bought out by corporate and are offered to clients visiting the city. and since those people are visitors they don’t really care about the spurs so they spend their time in places at the arena that are exclusive to them.
would be cool if if they had to be in their seats by a certain time or they lose them but that would never happen. spurs need the money.
i really don’t see a solution.
ing buy the tickets then and go yourself
I remember back when I was a kid watching from TV and being in awe that every NBA game was always packed. No matter what team, no matter what day, no matter what hour. The happened?
unless the game is against Golden State or the Lakers, tickets are really cheap to buy the day of the game on stubhub. It is nice that they are so affordable the day of the game but I think that it shows that demand for spurs tickets has definitely gone down.
I agree with this. A lot of fans don’t even pay attention to basketball until the football season is over.
I've been in the coporate box suites before, and they have this huge hangout area that's always pretty full, lol
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