The San Antonio Spurs are heading home tied 1-1 in the Western Conference finals, and San Antonio fans are going to have to pay playoff-level prices to be there.<\/p>\n
After the Spurs stunned the Oklahoma City Thunder in double overtime during Game 1, Oklahoma City answered back Wednesday night with a 122-113 win in Game 2, evening the series before it shifts to Frost Bank Center.\u00a0Despite the loss, excitement surrounding the Spurs\u2019 first Western Conference finals appearance since 2017 continues to drive ticket demand across San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Game 3 at Frost Bank Center has become the second most expensive Western Conference finals game on record by average purchase price, according to TickPick. The average ticket purchased for Game 3 is sitting at $660 \u2014 a 136% jump compared to the average purchase price of Game 1 in Oklahoma City, which was $279.<\/p>\n
According to updated data from TickPick, Game 4 currently carries the highest \u201cget-in\u201d price of the series at $402 in San Antonio \u2014 a 7% increase since the Spurs stole Game 1 on the road, when the cheapest ticket sat at $374.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City prices, however, dipped slightly following the Thunder\u2019s bounce-back win. The \u201cget-in\u201d price for Game 2 settled at $185, down 10% from the $205 price tag before the Spurs opened the series with their road victory.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the latest breakdown of TickPick\u2019s \u201cget-in\u201d prices for the remainder of the series:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Game 3 (San Antonio): $353
\u2022 Game 4 (San Antonio): $402
\u2022 Game 5, if necessary (OKC): $237
\u2022 Game 6, if necessary (San Antonio): $384
\u2022 Game 7, if necessary (OKC): $532<\/p>\n
The soaring ticket prices come as playoff fever continues to sweep through San Antonio. The Spurs have packed official watch parties at Frost Bank Center and The Rock at La Cantera throughout the postseason, with thousands of fans gathering to watch the team\u2019s deepest playoff run since the dynasty era.<\/p>\n
Game 3 is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Frost Bank Center, where fans are expected to deliver one of the loudest playoff atmospheres San Antonio has seen in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs are heading home tied 1-1 in the Western Conference finals, and San Antonio fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-686095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}