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Originally Posted by troutman
I've been watching more NBA than usual lately - court surfing. There sure are a lot of empty seats in many arenas. This does not match the announced attendance. Are many tickets sold and not used?
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Lower bowl seats in a lot of arenas are corporate season tickets. I think the NBA kinda suffers from its own star-power-driven model when it comes to attendance, because they spend so much time hyping the same players that it's difficult getting casual fans to get excited when, say, a good but non-hyped team like Denver or Utah or pre-championship Toronto comes to down. The era of super-teams has made it worse because those stars were really heavily consolidated around a small number of teams (although I think that's changing again with an influx of really exciting young players). They don't really do a good job of selling the in-arena experience the way I think the NHL does.