{"id":58591,"date":"2014-11-07T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58591"},"modified":"2014-11-07T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:53:44","slug":"nba-tickets-cost-index-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58591","title":{"rendered":"NBA tickets cost index up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; The average price of an NBA ticket increased 3.4 percent this season to $53.98.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to Team Marketing Report on Friday, the New York Knicks have the highest average at $129.38, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers at $102.25, the Chicago Bulls at $82.33 and the Miami Heat at $78.30. Among those four teams, only the Bulls raised prices.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Orleans ($30.20) and Charlotte ($30.60) had the lowest averages. The Los Angeles Clippers had the steepest increase, 24.3 percent to $78.43. Detroit dropped its average 3.2 percent to $38.80.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The average NFL ticket price is $84.43 this season, and the NHL average is $62.18. Major League Baseball&#8217;s average was $27.93 this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TMR also calculated a Fan Cost Index &#8211; four average-price tickets, two small draft beers, four small soft drinks, four hot dogs, parking, two programs and two adult-size caps. The index rose 2.6 percent to $333.58 for the NBA. The Knicks were the high team at $676.42 and Charlotte the low at $212.40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8211; The average price of an NBA ticket increased 3.4 percent this season to $53.98. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to Team Marketing Report on Friday, the New York Knicks have the highest average at $129.38, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers at $102.25, the Chicago Bulls at $82.33 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58592,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58591\/revisions\/58592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}