The Golden State Warriors are the hottest ticket in basketball – and perhaps in all sports – right now. That ticket price is going to get a bump next season, reports ESPN’s Darren Rovell:
Being a Golden State Warriors season-ticket holder will be more costly next season. The team is raising ticket prices once again, according to invoices provided to ESPN.
Increases vary from roughly 15 to 25 percent, depending on location.
Prices on the cheapest seats for season-ticket holders will increase from $32 to $40 a game, while the best courtside seats will rise from $625 to $715, or $30,745 for the season, not counting the playoffs.
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Brandon Schneider, the Warriors’ senior vice president of business development, said the increases were made against the backdrop of about 6,000 tickets per game being resold for an average of 70 percent above face value.
Schneider said the weighted average of the season ticket increase among all seats for the 2017-18 season is 16.9 percent.
The Finals tickets, should the Warriors make the Finals (let’s be honest, they will), will actually decrease in price, says Schneider:
One group of tickets will be frozen — playoff ticket prices for the first three rounds.
“One of the pain points with our fans was our prices for the postseason,” Schneider said. “So we decided to freeze those and, if we make it, prices to the NBA Finals will actually decline 15 percent.”
Regardless of this price increase, it’s hard to imagine that the Warriors will have any trouble selling tickets to games featuring Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson (assuming that nucleus stays together). The Warriors have sold out their last 214 home games.
