{"id":476812,"date":"2026-02-19T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:38:10","slug":"nba-attendance-steady-as-it-returns-from-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476812\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA attendance steady as it returns from All-Star break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The NBA drew 14.8 million fans prior to this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/16\/silvers-all-star-weekend-presser-leaves-nba-with-more-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/16\/silvers-all-star-weekend-presser-leaves-nba-with-more-questions\/\">All\u2011Star break<\/a>, according to an analysis of official league data by SBJ\u2019s David Broughton, including 106,372 fans across six neutral\u2011site games. The league\u2019s average attendance through 814 games played prior to the All-Star break was 18,078, flat compared to games played through last year\u2019s break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The Clippers, despite a roller\u2011coaster season, have recorded the biggest year-over-year attendance increase to date (+10%). The Hornets are also faring well (+6%), boosted by their recently completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/07\/how-the-hornets-245m-arena-overhaul-stayed-on-track-through-an-ownership-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/07\/how-the-hornets-245m-arena-overhaul-stayed-on-track-through-an-ownership-change\/\">$245 million Spectrum Center renovation<\/a> and a surge in performance (they won nine of their last 10 games before the break) that has put them in position to end their nine\u2011season playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">On the other end of the spectrum, the Wizards (who recorded the league\u2019s lowest average attendance in the 2024\u201125 season) and the Grizzlies have the lowest average attendance this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/15\/nba-has-second-highest-season-attendance-mark-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/15\/nba-has-second-highest-season-attendance-mark-ever\/\">Across the full 2024\u201125 season<\/a>, the NBA averaged 18,147 fans per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Other notable highlights:<\/p>\n<p>The NBA is on pace to exceed 22.3 million fans in total attendance for the third time.Nine of the 30 teams have sold out every home game: the Celtics, Cavaliers, Warriors, Rockets, Heat, Thunder, Suns, Spurs and Jazz.Nearly 97% of all available seats have been sold so far this season, which has happened only three times previously across a full season.<img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EBMD55HQWVFT3G7GD5PLB76LUI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"966\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA drew 14.8 million fans prior to this year\u2019s All\u2011Star break, according to an analysis of official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7630,6419,22488,355,99,99867],"class_list":{"0":"post-476812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-clippers","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-hornets","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wizards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}