What follows is only my opinion. Don't use it as a basis to buy or sell tickets.
Boston fans don't seem to believe.
One of the ways that I amuse myself* is by tracking the resale market and seeing what prices are doing. For instance, Game 2 tickets in Loge 10 were going for $1,000+ per ticket before Game 1. Then, after we dropped Game 1, buyers went on strike. Game 2 tickets dropped below Game 1 tickets and eventually found a floor. They took a dead cat bounce and then stabilized.
Game 5 tickets have been seen a buyer shortage since the beginning. It became like the housing market--sellers didn't want to drop prices and buyers didn't want to raise their bids. Over the past 24 hours, sellers have begun to soften a bit. Given that there is only a limited time until expiration and the time decay of ticket values accelerates as we get closer to tip off, the sellers seem to be in a position where they need to drop more. That is assuming, of course, that the sellers don't actually want to go to the game. If they have an "I'll see what I can get and if it's not enough, I'll go" attitude, then they won't drop their prices as much.
Part of the issue, of course, is the crazy prices that these tickets sell for in the secondary market. It's rare that ticket levels can stay as high as they got, since there's only a limited number of buyers.
But demand does seem to be slower for this round than it was for others. As Rick Pitino once said, Taylor Swift is not walking through that door, fans.
Mike
*It's generally acknowledged that I have no life.
