If you were thinking about buying tickets to the 2016 NBA Finals on the secondary market, be careful. A day after their Game 7 victory over the Thunder, the Warriors issued a warning to fans about counterfeit tickets, which they say were a problem in the Western Conference Finals.
Per the release:
The 2015 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors have issued a fraud alert warning fans about the potential dangers of purchasing tickets for the 2016 NBA Finals from a non-verified third party, the team announced today. Nearly 50 fans per game were denied access to Oracle Arena during the Western Conference Finals due to counterfeit tickets purchased from non-verified third-party vendors.
If you want to buy authentic tickets, they’re not going to be cheap. The Warriors are selling officially-sanctioned resale tickets, and the get-in-the-building price for Game 1 on Thursday is $547, which will get you upper-bowl seats. Courtside seats will run you as much as $21,053 apiece. But at least they’re real tickets.
It’s actually a little surprising they aren’t higher, considering a pair of courtside seats for Game 7 against the Thunder went for $29,000 apiece. That was a Game 7, with history potentially on the line if the 73-win Warriors had lost, but this is the Finals. If this goes the distance, it’s hard to imagine what tickets for Game 7 of the Finals will go for, considering a championship would all but cement the Warriors as the greatest team in NBA history.
If you’ve got the money, there are worse ways to spend it.
