Miami Heat r Only NBA Team With Playoff Tickets Selling At Discount To Regular Season

[Rose'sACL]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jesselawrence/2014/04/14/miami-heat-playoff-tickets-less-expensive-during-first-round-than-regular-season-average/

[inclinerator]

nobody wanna watch miami vs whoever in the round1

[Eric Cartman]

If you are a Lebron/Heat fan, would you spend $200 to see Miami against Bobcats/Toronto or would you save your money and watch an epic series against the Indiana Pacers?

[russwest0]

Heat "fans" :lol :lol :lol :oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

[talkingconch]

watch the seats fill if they lose a game or two

[Killbot]

Cuz Maimi Heat da bess.

[Fudge]

:roll:

90% of Miami fans down there have no idea that the playoffs are even coming up. Fan up, bitchez.

[ThePhantomCreep]

Miami is a horrendous sports town.

[AnaheimLakers24]

they forget they have a team in miami. not their fault. their superstar is boring to watch

[TheMarkMadsen]

Lebron just isn't an exciting player, even his fans aren't trying to watch him until they absolutly have to..

[russwest0]

they forget they have a team in miami. not their fault. their superstar is boring to watch

:lebronamazed: :lebroncry:

[Heavincent]

The Heat fan base is like 40% casuals, 40% Lebron stans living in different states or even countries, and 20% actual hardcore fans.

[talkingconch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSJcG0U1uo

[oarabbus]

Miami staying pathetic :facepalm:

You'd think they'd have learned after Game 6

[Rodmantheman]

lots of tension and jealousy in this thread.

[inclinerator]

Lebron just isn't an exciting player, even his fans aren't trying to watch him until they absolutly have to..
cavs sold out when he was there

[sd3035]

Most Heat fans either came over on a a raft from Cuba, or live with their parents still

[plowking]

Lebron just isn't an exciting player, even his fans aren't trying to watch him until they absolutly have to..

Weird that they sold out at home during the season and were the most watched team in the league away from home...

http://espn.go.com/nba/attendance/_/sort/homePct

[sd3035]

cavs sold out when he was there

He was somewhat exciting in Cleveland

[plowking]

Most Heat fans either came over on a a raft from Cuba, or live with their parents still

I fit both these categories.

[livinglegend]

I wouldnt pay to see Lebron and Heat coast against Bobcats.
I would save it for the later rounds.

[sd3035]

Weird that they sold out at home during the season and were the most watched team in the league away from home...

http://espn.go.com/nba/attendance/_/sort/homePct

People came to see Bosh

[Droid101]

Uh, heat fans are garbage historically.

http://cdn.business2community.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Miami-Heat-Fan-Up-e1290392138749.jpg

[plowking]

Uh, heat fans are garbage historically.


You're historically a shitty poster. And currently.

[sd3035]

Uh, heat fans are garbage historically.

http://cdn.business2community.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Miami-Heat-Fan-Up-e1290392138749.jpg


They did stack their team to monumental proportions, I agree with the promo

[J Shuttlesworth]

Miami sports culture is weak. It's not just the Heat. Miami fans show up late for ALL miami teams, not just the Heat

[plowking]

People came to see Bosh

The logic still makes zero sense.

[RoseCity07]

I looked up Blazer tickets and the are like 400 for a 100 level seat. F*ck that. I'd rather stay home and watch on a 70 inch screen. If it was a WCF game or Finals game I might pay that.

[Legends66NBA7]

I'm surprised the Raptors were not last on the road.

[secund2nun]

Even in 2001 most Miami Hurricane games were empty aside from a few big rivalry games. Miami just has bad sports fans, a bunch of Cubans who have no interest in American sports, North Eastern transplants that root for NE teams, plus a very exciting city which makes people in Miami less interested in sports.

[Done_And_Done]

Can't hold it against the small contingent of real basketball heads in South Beach but my goodness that's pathetic news. Are they that worried that they won't sell out?

[Rose'sACL]

Can't hold it against the real basketball heads in South Beach but my goodness that's pathetic news. Are they that worried that they won't sell out?
I think their regular season tickets cost a lot and they would most likely play bobcats so it is very reasonable to give some real fans a chance to see the games as most don't have the money to go to heat playoff games that cost a lot. From the stats I saw, they have been selling out every game for a long time.

[navy]

Are they that worried that they won't sell out?
Who's they? The article is about the secondary market not the organization and the Heat already had the most expensive tickets during the season. It would be insane to have a huge markup for a snooze of a first round series.

[Rose'sACL]

I was/just trying to see how many people actually read the article.this is from the article.

"While Heat fans get a bad rap for their perceived lack of interest in games, they are not the only fans possibly looking forward to future playoff rounds. Oklahoma City Thunder fans are considered some of the best in the league, but Thunder playoff tickets have just a 21% premium over their regular season average, the third smallest premium in the league. The next lowest is for Bulls playoff tickets, which are 45% more expensive than regular season games at the United Center."

[Done_And_Done]

No I admittedly did not even so much as click the link...

With that said, that's still flawed business practice regardless of how you spin it but more so tipifies a lacklustre sporting fan base. Charging less on the dollar for playoff tickets speaks to a lesser demand, which is always characteristic of a wonky fan base...

OKC is still lifting their prices on a 21 percent premium. That may not hold against the likes of Toronto but that's still a tangible increase.

This a joke no matter how you try to convey it man...

[Done_And_Done]

Who's they? The article is about the secondary market not the organization and the Heat already had the most expensive tickets during the season. It would be insane to have a huge markup for a snooze of a first round series.

I didn't read the article...

And I fully concur that it would be insane to have a huge markup for an expected first round advancement but to have no hike at all, let alone a reduction? Why not just maintain the status quo? Scaling back the face value makes zero sense to me from a business standpoint...

[navy]

I didn't read the article...

And I fully concur that it would be insane to have a huge markup for an expected first round advancement but to have no hike at all, let alone a reduction? Why not just maintain the status quo? Scaling back the face value makes zero sense to me from a business standpoint...
I think the thought was the Heat were going to try these last few games for the one seed. They didnt. :confusedshrug:

[tmacattack33]

This sounds bad if you just take it for what it is and don't think about it.


But if you think about it, or read the article, you'll realize they are just talking about the first round and nobody in Miami wants to spend a lot of money to see Miami in their bye week against Charlotte. They would rather just wait to see a meaningful game in the ECF.

And according to the articles about this, similar stuff is happening in OKC.

[Done_And_Done]

This sounds bad if you just take it for what it is and don't think about it.


But if you think about it, or read the article, you'll realize the lower ticket prices for their playoff games are due to the first round and the fact that Miami fans don't really care to see Miami in their bye week against Charlotte. They would rather just wait to see a meaningful game in the ECF.

And according to the articles about this, similar stuff is happening in OKC.

So do you surmise that there's a possibility that they wouldn't sell out had they increased their prices by a marginal amount such as OKC did?

[Bandito]

The Heat fan base is like 40% casuals, 40% Lebron stans living in different states or even countries, and 20% actual hardcore fans.
Brotha Spreading the truth:bowdown:

[Number24]

The Heat fan base is like 40% casuals, 40% Lebron stans living in different states or even countries, and 20% actual hardcore fans.

too high!

[JohnFreeman]

too high!
When did you become a Pacers fan, sir?

[SpecialQue]

People came to see Bosh

I have never laughed harder at such a dumb joke. :lol

[Im Still Ballin]

Lowers tickets for the fans!

#Goodguyfranchise

[ThePhantomCreep]

too high!

Defintely.

The five hardcore Heat fans that exist =/= 20% of their fanbase

[Wang Zhi Zhi]

nets/heat are pushing 200.. meanwhile..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm1_Pk7IEAA-UiX.jpg

[rhowen4]

lebron is literally worse than every evil thought that a billion different hitlers would have carried out on several different planets filled with jews

[Dresta]

No one care to mention that Heat regular season tickets are pretty damn expensive, and that the first round was versus the Bobcats? Or are they just gonna hate as per?

[cos88]

No one care to mention that Heat regular season tickets are pretty damn expensive, and that the first round was versus the Bobcats? Or are they just gonna hate as per?
:applause:

[Trollsmasher]

Micky Arison is the most generous owner:applause:

[3LiftHeatCurse]

"on the secondary market"

[Jailblazers7]

No one care to mention that Heat regular season tickets are pretty damn expensive, and that the first round was versus the Bobcats? Or are they just gonna hate as per?

Yeah but shouldn't everyone be willing to overpay to watch an inevitable Heat win instead of enjoying the nightlife in Miami? :oldlol:

People's lives revolve around sports way too much on ISH.

[Kukoc]

Its Miami, what did you expect?

People walk ut of a game 6 finals that was not over yet

[edrick]

People's lives revolve around sports way too much on ISH.

When you have no life, you cling onto anything that you do have.

[sd3035]

Their bandwagon celebrity fans who paid exorbitant ticket prices prices to get a few seconds of air time have already started their summer holidays early, thus leaving the Cubans who arrived on a raft, a few geriatric retirees, and a small group or working class real fans to fill the void