Cavs tickets cheap and available for Game 6
Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland is a cheap ticket compared to Game 5 in Oakland, California.
As of 11 a.m. ET Tuesday, 10 hours before game time, more than 100 tickets on the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ resale site Flash Seats were available for less than $250 each. Just 72 hours beforehand, before the Cavaliers went down 3 games to 2 in the best-of-seven series, no seat was available for Game 6 for less than $492.
And tickets could get even cheaper: Fans who owned more than 2,800 tickets — more than 13 percent of Quicken Loans Arena’s capacity — had posted their Game 6 tickets on Flash Seats as of noon ET Tuesday.
After the Cavaliers took a 2-1 lead in the Finals last week, prices for Game 6 soared, a sign that fans were optimistic the game would be the first time to see a Cleveland pro sports team win a championship since the NFL’s Browns last accomplished the feat in 1964.
Lower-level seats close to the center of the court were selling for $7,500. The worst seats in the house were selling for north of $800. Game 6 prices held somewhat when the Cavaliers lost Game 4, but plummeted immediately after their Game 5 loss by more than 50 percent in most seating areas. That lower-level seat that fans purchased after the Game 3 win can now be had for $1,500.
As of 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, the Cavaliers were still selling seats through their box office, but only a few tickets remained — a few upper-level seats with a face value of $255 and some lower-level seats with a face value of $700.
Prices for the secondary market averaged $1,161 a seat for Game 5 just before game time, according to Ticketmaster.
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