As someone who lives in Orlando that sounds surprising to me, lol. I figured our Orlando Pride games were getting more attendance than Magic games.

And the DeVos family owns the Orlando Magic so it’s doubly surprising.

I have been to many Magic games where the crowd is more than half full of people in visitors gear. Knicks and Lakers are the worst, Heat fans travel well, and any team that has a superstar that’s popular are essentially road games. The last one I went to we played the Warriors - Steph had fuckin 55 or something… you’d have thought we were at the Oracle.

So yeah, nice attendance numbers forever, but hopefully the discounts here are really policed to keep them as benefits for the locals and real fans. Of which there are dozens! DOZENS!

It’s probably more like they found that cheaper concessions will lead to more people buying them and therefore more profit overall. Still a win-win

I wonder what percentage of attendance is tourists. On one hand, butts in seats make money on game day. On the other hand, you’d rather those butts be local people you can convert into life long fans. People who will buy a jersey for christmas and watch regular season games (and ads). International one-off attendees don’t boost local TV ratings

I went to a Magic game in 2021 vs the infamous Brooklyn Nets with KD & Harden (No Kyrie because he refused the VAX) when I was in town for EDC Orlando. It was my first NBA game outside of going to home Raps games here in Toronto.

I enjoyed the arena and it was pretty easy to get there, although parking was a mish. No problem getting drinks. Tickets were pretty affordable too and I was lower stands behind the net. Only annoying part was they were very strict on your bag/purse sizes and my wife was just over so we had to go back and leave it in the car.

Funny enough, that was the rookie season for Suggs and the home fans in front of me were talking so much shit about him saying they wish they picked Scottie. Was so hard to not say anything to them as a Raptors fan haha.

Nets smacked them but it was cool to witness 2 legends play and visit another NBA arena.

Wish Raps did something like this.

Falcons and Suns are the teams I’ve heard about.

Say what you will about Ballmer, but since the Clippers have been at Intuit Dome, they have offered free shuttle service from 5 locations around LA County; created a fan section (The Wall) with cheaper tickets; always have an “item of the game” merch option that’s at least 50% off; the food and drinks are cheaper and better than they are at the Crypt (or the other NBA arenas I’ve been to in Chicago and Milwaukee); and have seriously cut down on lines for concessions and entrance, and made lines for bathrooms non-existent.

Unsure who was first, but I remember Ishbai (Phoenix) rolled this out pretty early.

Falcons for sure. I hate them but they do right by the fan experience.

Arthur blank seems like a great dude and a decent owner.

Being able to attend a game as a kid is one of the fastest ways to become a lifelong fan. These NBA teams need to figure out how to generate that kind of loyalty.

Phoenix suns started this movement I believe. They easily have one of the best owners in the NBA

Started in baseball, Dbacks games I think? Whose owner also owns the suns and came in super fan-friendly

Kings game get a normal sized burger, no fries or drink, fuckin $22 a couple seasons ago. Was in disbelief.

Suns have had it for 3 seasons now I believe?

$25 for a hot dog and a beer? Must be nice lol

Yeah theres SUPPOSED TO BE protection laws for consumers stopping this shit but of course no state enforces it

I know that the Minnesota Twins have a few specific cheap concession stand. Limited options but if you want a $4 hotdog it is worth the line.

Remember when this used to the normal pricing lmao

I stopped going to pro sports games years ago because of the prices. Between travel, tickets, parking, and food it got to the point where the experience wasn’t worth the cost.

Definitely not the Hawks lol

Totally agree, they wont ever expand their fan base by just catering to the wealthy.

Ive always thought every team should partner with boys & girls clubs and youth sports teams.

Set up a portal where those can get tickets for kids for basically nothing and parents for a discount if theyre bringing a kid

you fill out the empty seats which looks better and creates a better environment

you create lifelong fans

kids have to eat and want merch, so theyll spend money

kids need parents to bring them, so parents will pay more to get in.

I got hit with $125 for 5 IPA’s at a fucking Miami Marlins game 4 years ago at an afternoon game. Here, here!

It’s to get people to not drink 6 of them at the games. $7 waters on the other hand…

Alcohol being expensive at sports events is good policy though, food and non-alcoholic drinks should obviously be much cheaper in general

Funny, that’s the only thing I think really doesn’t matter. Discouraging alcohol consumption would solve 99% of issues between fans at games.

They all stop once it starts working hahaha

$20 for any tall boy is criminal

“Just watching the game, having a bud.”

Yeah, don’t let this gesture of goodwill distract you from the fact that the DeVos family is an absolutely awful group of humans.

Going to be pretty tough to find a decent billionaire but gotta take your wins where you can

This is just more reputation washing. Same with Ishbia.

for as much as you can say of the DeVos family (and you can say a LOT) they are absolutely committed to the city of Orlando, this franchise and this community

What about watching the games locally this upcoming season?

Are we still on Fan Duel Sports Network, or is that dead yet?

Exactly, the only thing that would make me consider going to magic games are new owners.

A fun family night out for less than $200 isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Downright cheap. Fucking dinner at Chili’s and a movie for a family of 4 will easily run you $200 these days.

And for a lot of lower wage workers, that might be one of the few big family events they do that year. It should be accessible to folks like that.

My buddy told me he was happier with the Heat getting Giannis than I was, because it meant tourists would stop buying tickets to the magic and thus he would be able to watch his team with cheaper tickets.

I didn’t see the vision then, but now I do. Props to them and hopefully when it’s time to rebuild after Giannis we do it too. The transit leaving the games is a tall ask on it’s own already.

Hoping

They should definitely get more recognition like the Suns and Magic are getting. That would help.

NBA fans need to start their own Twenty’s Plenty campaign.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/02/twentys-plenty-premier-league-football-supporters-federation-ticket-prices

It’s rare enough that the magic get mentioned. DeBary is like winning the lotto

Bulls sixers at wfc on a Monday in January has last row seats at 96 bucks right now. Only the flyers and the union are affordable in our city anymore.

💙 You’re getting Kawhi back though… Prices gona be through the roof…but what if he delivers again? 🥳🤯

Prob not the lakers or the nyk

Asking a telcom giant to be cheap ah ha aha ahahaa. 😞

Would you say Trish Stratusphere?

Do y’all remember the sprite zone? Good times

Is it even real? Or is it like southwest get away tickets that never existed.

I hope so, you’d have to be a total degenerate to scalp magic tickets. 2 weeks in and secondary sites will have $10 cheap seats after they start stinking up the joint.

They sell $5 cans at two in arena locations and have for at least the last 3-4 seasons