Just a few more ego-boosting tidbits to supplement stickboy's comments about ticket revenue. For a pair of front row seats (front row seats were only sold in pairs), you had to pay $26,000 in addition to the ticket price. This was quite a few years ago...
Just recently (FVV era) there were a few prime seats scattered around the arena. Demand was high so there was a sort of last minute seat license fee created to extract the full value from the remaining seats. These license fees raised something like 500k. We're only talking about a handful of seats people. This is NBA style s***.
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