How scary is it to not have the Chinese market? The Rockets' home attendance plummeted 32 percent, all NBA team owners chose to sharply increase ticket prices to maintain revenue, and some fan groups have begun to fight against the NBA bosses' unreasonable price increases, putting next season's season tickets on the website to be peddled.
According to a joint report by Washington Post reporters Josh Kosman and Brian Lewis, despite declining ratings and lower stadium attendance, NBA bosses have made more money than they did before the pandemic by raising ticket prices.
However, this move has also caused dissatisfaction among some fan groups.
Fans with season tickets want to resell some of their tickets to next season's regular season.
According to internal data, the average number of fans who watched the game this season was 13,603, a decrease of 7.1% compared to the previous year's average. The stats are even worse for those underperforming teams, with attendance down 15 percent or more on 10 of the league's 30 teams, including the Wizards, Kings, Magic, Pacers, Cavaliers, Trail Blazers, Thunder, Raptors, Timberwolves and Spurs.
The Houston Rockets, known to Chinese fans, saw the biggest decline, falling by an average of 32 percent per game, alongside the pelicans, who had the lowest market capitalization.
In the past, the NBA these popular teams by Chinese fans, including the Lakers, Clippers, Rockets and other teams can also earn advertising fees by advertising to Chinese merchants by advertising basketball hoops, chair backs and other places, and now with the head of the Chinese market not returning, no merchant is willing to advertise in such a small place, and the Rockets are obviously the team that has lost the most in this regard.
I have to say that "picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the bowl to scold the mother" this kind of thing is not to be done, look at the NBA's current experience, can only say that the ancients sincerely did not deceive me.
