Houston Rockets: Lower The Price Of Those Damn Tickets!

The Solution

Now to be fair, the Rockets have combated those concerns by offering a multitude of family packs for select games where a family could save.

For this last night’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the franchise offered a “50th Anniversary Special” where it was a 2-pack of tickets, souvenir sodas or beers and T-Shirts starting at $50.

Now that’s an impressive stride as this puts going to a Rockets game more closer in the realm of being affordable again.

I’d like to see more of these deals for all Rockets fans and would support a widespread decrease in ticket prices.

But the latter’s not likely — you know why?

The Rockets are business and as such are one of the most-valued NBA franchises, per Forbes.

The franchise is currently ranked 8th, valued at $1.5 billion, pulling in — after expenses — on average of $75 million per season off overall revenues of $237 million.

Not to mention that Flash Seats, the Rockets’ secondary ticket-resale marketplace, is a huge money-maker as the team gets a cut off each ticket RE-SOLD and BOUGHT!

And let’s not even go there with the dough that ROOT Sports Southwest makes for the organization — in fact, the ratings went up 44 percent in 2016 for this team.

That’s more advertising dollars in the team coffers.

Leslie Alexander, you’re a genius businessman but us loyal fans just want to be able see our exciting new team without spending a fortune to do it.

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So the solution is simple — lower the ticket prices and you’ll be able to fill Toyota Center every night with energetic fans to boot.

Also, it would also be helpful to move our tip-off times back to 7:30 p.m. CST so that more of us can make it on time and not stuck in Houston’s necessary evil — the traffic.

Enough is enough and it’s time for a solution to this empty-seat dilemma.

But until then — go Rockets.