The evening of January 23, 2008, Seattle, Key Arena.

Key Arena, which can accommodate 17,000 people, had 25,000 spectators today.

"It's too hot. The temperature in the arena is too hot now!"

The game hasn't even started yet, but Seattle fans are already celebrating on the sidelines.

This made Wang Han in the media gallery feel incredible.

She has been stationed in Seattle for more than a year and has watched more than 50 games at Key Arena.

I have watched hundreds of games in other NBA arenas in total.

But she has never seen such crazy scenes in Key Arena in any arena.

A 17,000-seat arena accommodates 25,000 spectators. What kind of situation is this?

The occupancy rate was close to 150%, and even the air she breathed felt hot!

It’s incredible!

In the NBA, some popular arenas often have attendance rates above 100%. The Seattle SuperSonics' attendance rates have been above 120% before, and the Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder's home attendance rates are also above 110%.

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In this year's NBA, eight teams have home attendance rates above 100%.

But no matter what, an attendance rate close to 150% is really unheard of!

Now as a professional NBA reporter, Wang Han certainly knows that pure attendance data is nothing.

As long as NBA teams are willing, each team can increase its team's home attendance rate to more than 150% in a certain game.

For the eight teams in the NBA that have an attendance rate of over 100, as long as they do not increase game ticket prices and fully open tickets, there is no problem in increasing the attendance rate to over 150%.

However, if the minimum ticket price for a game reaches 5,000 US dollars, and 25,000 people can be squeezed in in the end, then only these recent SuperSonics games can do it.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, for the two home games between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Spurs, the audience sitting in the arena, except for season ticket holders, was either rich or expensive.

After all, the $5,000 ticket price is not a scalper’s ticket price, it’s the official ticket price!

The last time NBA officials set ticket prices so capriciously, it was the Bulls in 1995.

In the game when Jordan came back, the lowest ticket price for the Bulls' home game was $1,000.

Of course, US$1,000 in 1995 and US$5,000 in 2008 cannot be directly compared. Issues of inflation and currency depreciation still need to be considered.

But no matter how you calculate it, 1,000 US dollars in 1995 will not increase in value five times in 2008, right?

Moreover, after the Bulls launched that terrifying $1,000 ticket price, there was no such high attendance. Although it was full, it was only full. The Bulls did not apply for a higher stadium capacity limit for that game.

But for this game, it’s not that the Seattle SuperSonics don’t want to apply for a higher capacity limit, but that Key Arena can really only accommodate so many people!

Except for those season ticket holders who can get one seat per person, other tickets, except for those VIP tickets in the front row that cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, are definitely more than one seat per person, plus the aisles are packed.

Like other places, Key Arena can only accommodate a maximum of 25,000 people.

If the Key Arena could be bigger, it could accommodate even 50,000 people, not to mention 25,000 people!

The city of Seattle may be lacking a lot of things, but the most lacking thing is rich people!

Moreover, the wealthy people in Seattle now are not only local people, but also hundreds of thousands of tourists from other places who have poured in in the past week.

“Incredible scene!”

Feeling the crazy atmosphere of the stadium, David Stern sighed.

Adam Silver beside him nodded blankly.

He has been an executive in the NBA for so many years, and he never thought that NBA games would be like this.

"After Yes completed an incredible fifth consecutive buzzer beater against the Grizzlies, as long as his buzzer beaters can continue, the value of each of his games can be called the Rose Bowl!"

Recalling the Wall Street Journal's commercial evaluation of yes's current games, Adam Silver felt that the Wall Street Journal's statement was a bit conservative.

According to Forbes magazine's estimate, the Rose Bowl's direct commercial value exceeds $500 million.

In advertising revenue alone, the 2007 Super Bowl sold $250 million.

Super high ratings bring super high advertising revenue.

The super high attendance rate has brought super high ticket revenue.

And now every game of yes is the same.

The viewership of the Super Bowl can reach 100 million people per game.

Judging from the recent Seattle SuperSonics games, when the Seattle SuperSonics played the Mavericks at home, the number of viewers in the United States reached 100 million.

Turner Group and Disney have not announced how much advertising revenue they earn.

But for ticket revenue, let’s take this show as an example.

Excluding the negligible 10,000 season ticket holders, the remaining 15,000 spectators for this game brought the Seattle SuperSonics more than $150,000 in ticket revenue.

The four games between the Mavericks, Hawks, Kings and, in this case, the Cavaliers, brought the Seattle SuperSonics more than $500 million in ticket revenue.

NBA teams’ regular season ticket revenue does not need to be distributed to away teams, only 6% is turned over to the league!

In other words, from these four games alone, the Seattle SuperSonics' ticket revenue has been able to raise most of the funds for them to build a new arena!

Without the need for bosses to pay or the government to appear, most of the money for a new stadium was raised in just four games. This is the first time in the history of the NBA!

The sparkling light that yes is exuding now, in Adam Silver's opinion, is the light that symbolizes money!

Having such an arena in the NBA is definitely not only a blessing for the Seattle SuperSonics, but also a blessing for the entire NBA!

This is a player who can make the entire NBA revolve around him.

It's a pity...

Adam Silver had some regret on his face.

If it were him, he could develop greater value in him.

It's just that the current president of the league is David Stern.

David Stern is good, but he is too conservative.

Facing such a player, David Stern is wasting Yes' time and the entire NBA's time!

Yes, every day you reach the peak earlier, NBA can make more money earlier!

Yes is not strong enough? SuperSonics is not strong enough?

What does that matter?

As long as the alliance makes up for the lack of strength in yes!

What about LeBron James, what about Steve Nash, what about Yao Ming McGrady, what about Kobe Kidd, what about Duncan Bowen, in the face of the interests of the NBA, do they still need to consider their positioning in the NBA?

No matter what kind of opponent, villain, or boss, these don’t matter. As long as you have yes, nothing else matters!

Adam Silver has been feeling very depressed recently. Thinking of these things, he really wants to shout out loudly, David Stern is just an old and confused idiot!

But, he didn't dare.

His performances in front of David Stern over the years have made him become David Stern's designated successor.

Now we are one step away from success.

He didn't dare to make a move just one step away.

Even if this step is becoming farther and farther away visible to his naked eyes.

This old fool has no intention of giving up his position as president these days.

In this world, as long as David Stern is unwilling to give up his position as president of the NBA, not even the President of the United States can deprive him of his position as president.

His status in the NBA is too high.

He is not an idiot, how could he not realize what David Stern is planning now?

This old guy is really planning to retire after surpassing the NFL!

If David Stern's dream before was just a dream.

So after watching these four home games of the Sonics, no one will laugh at David Stern's goal as just an impossible dream!

Even if he strongly disagrees with David Stern's approach, he also admits that David Stern has the opportunity to lead the NBA to surpass the NFL.

It's just that under David Stern, it might take 8 years.

But under the leadership of Adam Silver, in four years at most, his NBA and yes can reach the pinnacle of American professional sports history!

It's a pity that now he doesn't have the opportunity to display his talents.

That suffocating feeling of being pregnant has made Adam Silver extremely miserable recently.

Why did yes meet David Stern?!

We are obviously a perfect match!

Now Adam Silver is madly complaining about David Stern in his heart.
To be continued...