Hot ticket: 2 Game 7 floor seats sell for $29K each
The final game to decide the Western Conference championship is, not surprisingly, a very hot ticket.
In fact, according to ticketing search engine TiqIQ, Monday night’s game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors, has the second-highest list prices for an NBA Game 7 in the past five years ($960 a ticket).
The only Game 7 that tops Monday night’s matchup in Oakland was the 2013 NBA Finals Game 7 between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs ($1,346 a ticket).
The Warriors put the few remaining tickets on sale on Sunday night with prices ranging from $230 to $2,150. They sold out in less than five minutes.
Those prices did not include any floor seats which were sold out. But an individual did go to the Warriors’ resale site, run by Ticketmaster, and purchased two floor seats for $29,000 each.
A spokesman for StubHub, which is currently appealing its lawsuit against the Warriors and Ticketmaster, accusing the two of conspiring to control both the primary and secondary ticketing market for the team, said its average sold ticket for the game was $824, with the cheapest seat at $359.
Warriors officials have said that having Ticketmaster control both the primary and resale market helps to make sure tickets are authentic. Warriors spokesperson Lisa Goodwin said that the team had to turn away 80 fans for Game 5 at Oracle Arena on Thursday night because the tickets scanned in as fraudulent.
