Spurs facing another non-sellout

[TheWriter]

I guess Spurs fans like The Writer will get it when the St. Louis Spurs make the Western Conference Finals and sell out their games within seconds in the year 2015.

Bravo, keep going.

[timvp]

Bravo, keep going.

They will.

[ChumpDumper]

Didn't someone just mention the Mavs and their dip owner having to buy remaining tickets of a playoff game?

1. I didn't see that, do you have a link?

2. Doesn't Dallas have such a great PR department that they don't have to resort to such measures?

[TheWriter]

They will.

I'm sure. This week of course. Next week who knows what zany thing you'll write about. We can only sit and wait in anticipation.

[timvp]

S-P-U-R-S Spurs! Spurs! Spurs! could be the answer. . .

[TheWriter]

1. I didn't see that, do you have a link?

It's in this thread so you can click on the numbers.

2. Doesn't Dallas have such a great PR department that they don't have to resort to such measures?

So when did I say the PR has or had anything to do with the non-sellout?

Oh that's right, I didn't. I just made an off the topic comment about disliking the current Spurs PR.

Didn't correlate it with anything.

[ChumpDumper]

S, P, U-R-S! That's the way we spell success! Spurs!

[ChumpDumper]

It's in this thread so you can click on the numbers.

So you can give me the number to click on.

So when did I say the PR has or had anything to do with the non-sellout?

Oh that's right, I didn't. I just made an off the topic comment about disliking the current Spurs PR.

Didn't correlate it with anything.

So attendance has no correlation to PR.

What about the mottos?

[TheWriter]

So you can give me the number to click on.So attendance has no correlation to PR.

What about the mottos?

I could care less what effect the catch phrases or mottos have on attendance. My beef isn't with attendance, my beef is with the PR department, I dislike how content they've become.

[ChumpDumper]

And their contentedness has the effect of what?

[johngateswhiteley]

I don't buy this matchup BS.

What great intrastate must-see rivalry did teams like the 2004 Grizzlies bring to the table that draw Spurs fans to the arena? I don't think people realize that it's never been anything close to like this during the playoffs. There were never 20 seats in a row that can be bought after like 48-72 hours of playoff tickets being on sale.

This is way beyond anything we've seen as Spurs fans. Yeah the Jazz aren't the Lakers, but the Spurs have easily sold out games versus the Grizzlies, pre-AI Nuggets, Blazers, etc. The Spurs also never had problems selling out the Dome for playoff games against the Jazz when the Spurs would get steamrolled back in the '90s.

And there's no advertising campaign the Spurs can launch to sell WCF tickets. Are you going to have the coyote run around the Dominion telling people tickets are available? Anything more than that and it makes more financial sense to just give the tickets away.

This is the WCF. It could be held in a gym on the southside with no air condition and $10 bud lights and $8 taquitos, and it should have still sold out. Blaming the Spurs because their fan base is getting worse and worse doesn't make much sense to me.

Sure, it could be cheaper or whatever but the prices haven't changed enough over the years for money to be the issue.

It's either Spurs fans suck, Spurs fans are lazy, this market sucks for pro sports or Spurs fans don't care.

I'm not sure which direction I lean.

i vote for Spurs Fans Suck and Spurs Fans are Stupid...not sure how much the market has to do with it, yet.

[TheWriter]

And their contentedness has the effect of what?

Making you any annoying ahole?

[ChumpDumper]

Making you any annoying ahole?

I really don't think anyone else is necessary for that to happen, do you?

[ShoogarBear]

Y'all know the solution for all of this is painfully clear:

[ShoogarBear]

James White!

[ChumpDumper]

[ShoogarBear]

And so are you saying the Spurs' PR is much worse than any other team in the NBA? Because it's hard to say how any other team would be having this problem.

[T Park]

I fail to see how management is to blame for this.

Its the WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS!!

THREE ING WINS FROM THE FINALS!

Good ing god people.

Why do the Spurs need to give out T Shirts and Robert Horry jerseys.

THERE SHOULD BE NO NEED FOR GIVEAWAYS TO MAKE FANS WANT TO GO.


Its the goddamn conference finals.


If you don't think Oklahoma isn't already calling up Peter Holt saying "Ya know, we've got a newer arena, where fans support the team way better and won't take games off"


ing San Antonio.

[aaronstampler]

I don't really understand why this is such a problem for people. If you have a modest income fan base and all of a sudden you raise ticket prices for playoff games, they will not be able to afford to go to every game. If you have only 100 to spend for a ticket and you can choose only one between Utah or Finals, you'll pick Finals.

I'm not from SA, but unless I'm mistaken, it's not exactly the wealthiest city.

[violentkitten]

lowest price on ticketmaster for tix is $23. those appear to be sold out. next lowest price is $54 and there are pairs available. that places you in the middle row of a 200 level section.

[violentkitten]

found a pair of charter level seats (section 18) with a price of $374 per seat available about 10 minutes ago.

[Kori Ellis]

There's tickets on eBay going for $20-30 per pair.

[violentkitten]

found 4 seats together in section 219 row 8 for $64 apiece.

[sabar]

I don't see why this is a big debate...

Have you seen the games on national TV? Heck, go to the arena yourself.
I would rank the Spurs home court the weakest in the league IMO. Facts are, our fans are just not hardcore. We aren't a big sports city and we have been winning so it's the norm.

Fans are mostly to blame, they are too casual. I bet most of those people in the $700 seat pairs don't even know Utah had a team, just wealthy people grabbing tickets. Heck, those seats are the ones I always see empty first and most quiet.

Our PR and stuff is fine... I blame the small market of the city as a whole and the fact that Utah have been silent playoff assassins.

[violentkitten]

maybe the spurs can get williams to call the team "dirty". that seems to work.