Are you aware of the average price of family night out to an NBA game, and why you won’t pay it after the lockout.
When going out to an NBA game, a family of four can easily spend well over $200 at the game alone, not including the cost of their seats. From sodas, foam fingers at the gift shop, t shirts, food, and all other souvenirs bought at a game, you will not walk out for less than this amount. But, since the NBA lockout, many of the players have begun to go overseas, have signed contract deals to play with these teams, and will not be in the NBA this season, even if the lockout does come to an end, and the season starts up.
So, with many of the NBA’s biggest allpro stars, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Tony Parker, and several others, signing to play overseas, fans are not going to be willing to come to the arena, and watch games without these star athletes on the floor. Plus, with the lockout taking place, everything is bound to go up in price when the season does eventually start up, if it does, in order to compensate for the lost revenues they would have been taking in at pre season and early season exhibition games. So, not only are fans going to be looking at higher prices for tickets, and not getting to see the stars they want to watch on the court, but food, drinks, and souveneirs are also going to increase at the arena.
Additionally, parking will likely go up in prices, as will all other costs a fan incurs when going to a game. Since many arenas and owners are trying to make up for the millions lost during the missed games, they are going to take it out on the fans by increasing the cost of everything. So, if it wasn’t already expensive enough to go to a game, now fans are going to bite the bullet, and see the increases in costs if they still decide to go to games, if the lockout does come to an end. Plus, some of the NBA’s greatest players will not even be playing on the court, so fans are going to miss out on the action they are looking for as well.
So, whether or not the season will start up, or take place at all in the 2011 – 2012 season is yet to be seen. But, for fans who are going to be attending games, you can expect to miss out on some big names that are not going to be on the court, as they have already signed to play in an overseas league, and you can expect to see an increase in the costs of everything at the arena, from parking, to buying a soda and hot dog.