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发帖数: 370 | 1 Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Jeremy Lin road show is about to
begin, doubling ticket prices as the New York Knicks visit the
Miami Heat tomorrow.
The Knicks, who are 8-2 since Lin thrust himself into the
spotlight by coming off the bench to score 25 points in a Feb. 4
win against New Jersey, end a five-game home stand tonight
against the Atlanta Hawks. They then will play five of the
following six on the road, also taking a six-day layoff for the
All-Star break after the game tomorrow night at AmericanAirlines
Arena in Miami.
The average resale ticket price to the Heat game is $510,
more than double the $219 average price for Miami’s other
contests this season, according to TiqIQ , an event ticket
aggregator for the online resale market.
The highest-priced seat to watch the Knicks take on Heat
All-Stars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh is going for
$9,400, according to TiqIQ, while the average price has more
than doubled since the day after Lin, a second-year National
Basketball Association player, made his first career start on
Feb. 6.
Lin, the first Harvard University graduate to play in the
NBA since Ed Smith in 1953-54 and the first Chinese- or
Taiwanese-American to play in the league, has averaged 24.6
points and 8.5 assists per contest during the 10-game stretch,
sending ticket prices, television ratings and international
interest in his story soaring. The attention has come to be
known as “Linsanity.”
The 23-year-old Lin never got in the lineup during New
York’s first game at the Heat, a 99-89 loss on Jan. 27 that drew
19,707 fans, fewer than the team’s current average of 19,918 a
game. |
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