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On August 15 2012 08:21 krndandaman wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 07:49 Southlight wrote: o_O You can get much, much cheaper seats for Verizon Center. On stub hub right now for Lakers vs Wizards the cheapest seat is $44.75 and that's like the one all the way up to the side. Do ticket prices vary according to the visiting team's popularity?
if marketing is smart enough then i would hope so?
it's not like it's the same price per venue like we get in australia. i went to lakers and clippers game back to back, both at staples but huge difference in price lol
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On August 15 2012 08:21 krndandaman wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 07:49 Southlight wrote: o_O You can get much, much cheaper seats for Verizon Center. On stub hub right now for Lakers vs Wizards the cheapest seat is $44.75 and that's like the one all the way up to the side. Do ticket prices vary according to the visiting team's popularity?
There're random promotions like http://www.nba.com/wizards/tickets/promotions.html throughout the year.
Edit: And of course, the price differences http://seatgeek.com/washington-wizards-tickets/ Granted these are Ebay prices but I think they're similar to the price fluctuations you can see. Dun remember though, I normally just grab promotion packs with friends.
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On August 15 2012 08:21 krndandaman wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 07:49 Southlight wrote: o_O You can get much, much cheaper seats for Verizon Center. On stub hub right now for Lakers vs Wizards the cheapest seat is $44.75 and that's like the one all the way up to the side. Do ticket prices vary according to the visiting team's popularity?
Yes, ticket prices very wildly depending on who the Wizards are playing. While the cheapest ticket vs the Lakers may currently be $50, tickets for the Wizards Vs Bobcats last year went for $1.98 a piece on stub hub. This was right after Flip Saunders got fired and Randy Whitman became head coach, the Wizards were the 2nd worst team in the league (Charlotte was the worst).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/affordable-wizards-tickets-to-see-randy-wittmans-debut/2012/01/25/gIQAfM0EQQ_blog.html Of note: ".... here are the numbers on StubHub: 10 tickets for less than $2. 253 tickets for $5 or less. 393 tickets for $10 or less, including several on the 100 level."
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I like it.
I was also a bit surprised by how many Knicks fans actually believed that they are going to see the Felton from the D'Antoni/Melo-less era this coming season.
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Clearly they dont watch any games involving other NBA teams when the Knicks aren't on. His time in Portland was a disaster.
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On August 15 2012 12:08 Ace wrote: Clearly they dont watch any games involving other NBA teams when the Knicks aren't on. His time in Portland was a disaster.
does he still have his beer belly?
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Last pic I saw of him he had a cupcake in his hand so possibly
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On August 15 2012 08:21 krndandaman wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 07:49 Southlight wrote: o_O You can get much, much cheaper seats for Verizon Center. On stub hub right now for Lakers vs Wizards the cheapest seat is $44.75 and that's like the one all the way up to the side. Do ticket prices vary according to the visiting team's popularity? Yes.
In General you're gonna pay extra when the Lakers or Heat are in town, regardless of where the match is.
Around here Lakers vs Celtics tickets go for a crapload too because of the rivalry.
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Gotta admit this is somewhat incredible:
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/14/on-amazing-ripple-effects-of-the-2004-shaq-trade/#comments
On the amazing ripple effects of the 2004 Shaq Trade
John Krolik
Aug 14, 2012, 9:42 PM EDT
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Remember the Summer of 2004? The Lakers, who came into the season with Gary Payton, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, and Shaq making up 80% of their starting 5, had just lost a “gentlemen’s sweep” to the Detroit Pistons. Kobe Bryant was a free agent. Shaq still had that pre-max monster of a deal, and he wasn’t getting any younger or getting along with Kobe any better.
The Lakers had to make a decision, especially when Kobe forced their hand by saying that he wouldn’t come back next season if Shaq was still on the team. (Revisionist history glosses over this fact, but Phil Jackson’s book The Last Season clearly states that Phil had that exact conversation with Kobe, and Kobe re-signed with the Lakers the day after Shaq was traded. The Lakers were going to have to make a tough decision on Shaq and his huge contract anyways, but come on.)
The Lakers ultimately decided to trade Shaq for Brian Grant, Caron Butler, and Lamar Odom. After that, the following things happened:
- Okay, Brian Grant never really became important.
- The Heat had the best record in the East, a relatively svelte Shaq narrowly lost the MVP vote to Steve Nash, and the Heat took the Pistons to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Meanwhile, Kobe, struggling with injuries, a new coach, and new teammates, had one of the worst seasons of his career, and the Lakers actually missed the playoffs.
- Because they missed the playoffs, the Lakers got the 10th overall pick, and decided to take a risk on high school big man Andrew Bynum. This would become important later. (Meanwhile, the Warriors, who picked Todd Fuller 11th the year Kobe Bryant was drafted 13th, drafted Ike Diogu one pick ahead of Bynum. The Magic took Fran Vasquez directly after Bynum. Again, this would become important later.)
- In 05-06, after the Lakers traded Caron Butler for Kwame Brown, a healthy and motivated Bryant averaged the highest PPG of his career, but the wafer-thin Lakers lost to the Suns in 7 games. Meanwhile, the Heat were able to stun the Mavericks and win the NBA title with Shaq playing a vital role, although Miami clearly would not have come close to winning it all without Dwayne Wade’s historically great finals performance.
- At the 2007-08 trade deadline, the Lakers used Kwame Brown’s expiring contract, which came from the Caron Butler trade, which came from the Shaq trade, to acquire Pau Gasol. The Lakers went to the Finals that year and lost to the Celtics, but won the next two championships with Kobe, Pau, Lamar Odom, and Andrew Bynum (when healthy) leading the way.
- Meanwhile, Shaq, after being traded to the Suns and missing the playoffs, was acquired by the Cavaliers as a “Dwight-stopper,” and ultimately ended up helping end the LeBron era because the Cavaliers’ anti-Magic frontcourt got eaten alive by Boston’s frontcourt as the Celtics beat the Cavaliers in six games. (Yes, LeBron had some bad performances in that series, particularly game 5, but the frontcourt mismatches were a HUGE reason the Celtics shredded the Cavaliers.) You have to admit, the levels of irony here are incredible.
- After the 2010 season, LeBron James announces that he is leaving Cleveland and taking his talents to South Beach. Many people notice.
***PURE SPECULATION COMING UP***
Consider this: If Wade doesn’t have a ring, do you think he would have been able to convince LeBron to leave his hometown team, which was coming off of consecutive 60+ win seasons, and become, for a time, perhaps the most hated athlete in America. (There’s a real possibility of this — LeBron wanted to play with friends/superstars, LRMR had LeBron convinced that everyone would love him no matter what, and Miami does reportedly have nice weather in the winter. Still, I think Wade’s 2006 ring really, really helped LeBron make his “decision.”
***PURE SPECULATION OVER***
- The Heat make the Finals in each of the next two seasons, losing in 6 games in 2011 and winning in 5 games in 2012. If you’re keeping score at home and believe my theory (which may be a stretch), the Shaq trade has now led to the Heat and Lakers winning two championships apiece.
- Cut to the summer of 2012. The Lakers manage to flip Lamar Odom’s trade exception for Steve Nash, and flip Andrew Bynum, the lottery pick they got because the year directly after Shaq left was the one year they were bad enough to make the lottery, gets effectively flipped for Dwight Howard. The Lakers now have a starting lineup of Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Pau Gasol, and Metta World Peace, and are instant title contenders again.
So there you have it — eight years after the Lakers and Heat made a blockbuster trade for the most dominant center of this era, they each have two championships under their belt, and at least three of those four total championships can be directly traced back to the Shaq trade. On top of that, the two teams may well be on a collision course to meet in the 2013 finals, which makes the whole sequence of events that much more incredible.
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Wow that was quite a read Ace.
When you see it all laid out for you like that it really is easy to trace all of that back to the Shaq trade.
This was posted in the comments and just made the whole thing all the more interesting to speculate about.
No question – the Pat Riley-Dwyane Wade combo having won a ring already played a huge role in convincing LeBron to leave a Mike Brown-led Cleveland Cavaliers.
Without that ring in 2006, Pat Riley is a guy who lost won a championship 20 years before, and Dwyane Wade is just like LeBron – an annual regular-season MVP and scoring title candidate who hadn’t won anything.
Maybe Wade and/or Bosh joins LeBron in Cleveland? Or maybe Wade goes back to his hometown of Chicago, where he fits with Derrick Rose to make the most feared backcourt in the NBA, while LeBron talks Bosh into forming the best combination of forwards in the NBA with him in Cleveland or NYC?
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On August 15 2012 11:51 XaI)CyRiC wrote:I like it. I was also a bit surprised by how many Knicks fans actually believed that they are going to see the Felton from the D'Antoni/Melo-less era this coming season.
I know its kinda late, but can someone tell me why Knicks let Jeremy Lin go to Houston?
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The Knicks are my least favorite team in the league. Orlando might be #2 and that was even before this last FO screw up.
ETA: I don't have a favorite team, just players. Right now I support Miami cuz Wade is my #1 guy, with teams like New Orleans being a wishful hope atm because of Eric Gordon. I still like the Celtics because of KG but Wade support trumps them.
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It was just last year that Chicago was one of the title contenders. Now no one even look their way. They can't do it with or without rose any more. Teams too stacked, and this is unfair for any of the teams that isn't stacking talents.
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People aren't looking their way because they traded away/didn't re-sign their biggest advantage over every team in the league: their bench.
Asik/Brewer/Watson/Lucas?/Korver are all gone.
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On August 15 2012 10:20 BloodNinja wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2012 08:21 krndandaman wrote:On August 15 2012 07:49 Southlight wrote: o_O You can get much, much cheaper seats for Verizon Center. On stub hub right now for Lakers vs Wizards the cheapest seat is $44.75 and that's like the one all the way up to the side. Do ticket prices vary according to the visiting team's popularity? Yes, ticket prices very wildly depending on who the Wizards are playing. While the cheapest ticket vs the Lakers may currently be $50, tickets for the Wizards Vs Bobcats last year went for $1.98 a piece on stub hub. This was right after Flip Saunders got fired and Randy Whitman became head coach, the Wizards were the 2nd worst team in the league (Charlotte was the worst). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/affordable-wizards-tickets-to-see-randy-wittmans-debut/2012/01/25/gIQAfM0EQQ_blog.htmlOf note: ".... here are the numbers on StubHub: 10 tickets for less than $2. 253 tickets for $5 or less. 393 tickets for $10 or less, including several on the 100 level."
Why the fuck are Raptors tickets more expensive than Lakers tickets?
edit: I have to cheer for Steve Nash, so I'll be a temporary Lakers fan. I think it's actually great to have 2 great teams, even better that one is in the east and one in the west. I just wish that the Heat and Lakers were a bit younger, so that we could see some epic rivalry develop.
I've always cheered for the underdog, since 1993. 1993 - Suns 1994 - Knicks 1995 - Magic 1996 - Sonics 1997 - Jazz 1998 - Jazz
and so on.
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