JB states his case for All-NBA

[Atzar]

Do you know who is going to get screwed? The fans.

 Somebody is going to have to absorb the cost of a $50 million-$60 million per year contract, and ownership will be quite happy to raise ticket prices.  At the same time, they will ignore the record revenues that they are bringing in, which salaries are directly linked to.

Yeah.  It gets harder and harder to justify the expense of going to a game. 

We've long-since passed the point where I am willing to pay to see a game live.  A game is a special experience, but watching on a decent TV is a good evening on its own and a hell of a lot cheaper.  Also don't have to deal with Boston parking or the occasional inconsiderate jackass seated nearby. 

Worth noting that I have social anxiety, so that threshold is likely a lot lower for me than most people, lol.  Still... that threshold is somewhere for almost everybody even for a really good team, and I have to imagine that we pass it for more and more people with every price increase. 

[angryguy77]

I have a bad feeling we're going to get screwed.

Do you know who is going to get screwed? The fans.

 Somebody is going to have to absorb the cost of a $50 million-$60 million per year contract, and ownership will be quite happy to raise ticket prices.  At the same time, they will ignore the record revenues that they are bringing in, which salaries are directly linked to.

I'm not going to disagree with you there. Taking my family to the game in Milwaukee was crazy expensive despite being in the nosebleeds.

[Roy H.]

Do you know who is going to get screwed? The fans.

 Somebody is going to have to absorb the cost of a $50 million-$60 million per year contract, and ownership will be quite happy to raise ticket prices.  At the same time, they will ignore the record revenues that they are bringing in, which salaries are directly linked to.

Yeah.  It gets harder and harder to justify the expense of going to a game. 

We've long-since passed the point where I am willing to pay to see a game live.  A game is a special experience, but watching on a decent TV is a good evening on its own and a hell of a lot cheaper.  Also don't have to deal with Boston parking or the occasional inconsiderate jackass seated nearby. 

Worth noting that I have social anxiety, so that threshold is likely a lot lower for me than most people, lol.  Still... that threshold is somewhere for almost everybody even for a really good team, and I have to imagine that we pass it for more and more people with every price increase.

Yeah, i like to get to a game a year, but bare minimum, it’s going to cost $1000 between 4 tickets, travel, food and a hotel.  And that’s for a “cheap” one night trip.

It used to be, not all that long ago you could go to the game and the ticket prices weren’t going to bankrupt you.  Food and merch was crazy, but it was justifiable, like a theme park or movie theater.

Now, with greedy owners, high demand, and a huge secondary market, you can literally get into Disney World for cheaper than a lot of games.

[Celtics2021]

Do you know who is going to get screwed? The fans.

 Somebody is going to have to absorb the cost of a $50 million-$60 million per year contract, and ownership will be quite happy to raise ticket prices.  At the same time, they will ignore the record revenues that they are bringing in, which salaries are directly linked to.

Yeah.  It gets harder and harder to justify the expense of going to a game. 

We've long-since passed the point where I am willing to pay to see a game live.  A game is a special experience, but watching on a decent TV is a good evening on its own and a hell of a lot cheaper.  Also don't have to deal with Boston parking or the occasional inconsiderate jackass seated nearby. 

Worth noting that I have social anxiety, so that threshold is likely a lot lower for me than most people, lol.  Still... that threshold is somewhere for almost everybody even for a really good team, and I have to imagine that we pass it for more and more people with every price increase.

Yeah, i like to get to a game a year, but bare minimum, it’s going to cost $1000 between 4 tickets, travel, food and a hotel.  And that’s for a “cheap” one night trip.

It used to be, not all that long ago you could go to the game and the ticket prices weren’t going to bankrupt you.  Food and merch was crazy, but it was justifiable, like a theme park or movie theater.

Now, with greedy owners, high demand, and a huge secondary market, you can literally get into Disney World for cheaper than a lot of games.

That high demand and secondary market are the bigger issues.  The NBA set all-time attendance records this year.  Tickets are expensive, but if the owners made them cheaper, the prices would only marginally change, because people would still buy them and then resell them.  There are a finite number of tickets, so price will be very sensitive to demand, especially since they can be resold and adjust to demand in real-time.

[angryguy77]

They could make some available that couldn't be transferred. You're right for the most part though, demand is driving costs, but I can't help but think they could find a way  to bring down costs. If they for example, marked upper level at $50 a piece, resellers are going to have a hard time selling them for triple the price.

These owners demand the state/city to chip in on building the arenas, and then make the games inaccessible for a large portion of the people who paid for the building.

[Kernewek]

They could make some available that couldn't be transferred. You're right for the most part though, demand is driving costs, but I can't help but think they could find a way  to bring down costs. If they for example, marked upper level at $50 a piece, resellers are going to have a hard time selling them for triple the price.

These owners demand the state/city to chip in on building the arenas, and then make the games inaccessible for a large portion of the people who paid for the building.

Well that's the free market for you, isn't it?