{"id":276813,"date":"2025-11-11T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276813\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:03:09","slug":"minnesota-timberwolves-debut-in-game-ticket-upgrades-via-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276813\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves debut in-game ticket upgrades via Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The T\u2019Wolves have \u201cbegun selling seat upgrades during games as part of a novel plan to keep the team\u2019s ticket marketplace active until the final whistle,\u201d according to Ira Boudway of BLOOMBERG NEWS. Fans at the Target Center are \u201cbeing offered the chance to move into seats in the first 20 rows during the game.\u201d Over the T\u2019Wolves\u2019 first three home games, they \u201csold 159 upgrades at an average cost of about $34 per seat.\u201d The T\u2019Wolves are \u201calso selling \u2018first half passes\u2019 for a handful of premium seats at each game.\u201d Buyers, who pay half the price of a full-game ticket, are \u201crequired to vacate their seats after the second quarter and have access to a lounge club for the remainder of the game.\u201d The franchise has also \u201cheld aside seats to sell as second-half upgrades.\u201d In the future, fans who \u201cleave the arena early may be able to release their seats, possibly in exchange for discounts or other perks.\u201d Jump, the team\u2019s ticketing platform \u201ccharges a licensing fee for its software\u201d instead of charging fees on ticket sales and sharing them with teams. Fans login through the team\u2019s app and buy directly. The T\u2019Wolves\u2019 upgrade program is the \u201cfirst realization of Jump\u2019s founding vision to create a marketplace for fans to switch, or jump, seats during games.\u201d For now, Jump is \u201csetting prices for upgrades.\u201d As inventory grows, it \u201cmay use auctions\u201d (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 11\/7<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The T\u2019Wolves have \u201cbegun selling seat upgrades during games as part of a novel plan to keep the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,81630,459,82,19384],"class_list":["post-276813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fan-experience","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-ticketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}