First year being a season ticket holder. This shit's expensive. If they dare raise it up i'll have to really question if I want to continue, seeing as though we really aren't going to make the playoffs till 2013. That or I get 41 other friends to join me!

Games are already expensive. I don't want to get into the whole financial discrimination of what professional sports causes within communities right now ... but it is obvious that the Warriors are a financially success team due to the ever present and continual fan base in the bay area. 12 years watching this crap and you still have over 90% capacity? Bay Area is too nice ... or has too much money!

I agree. The price hike is completely uncalled for.  We have been spiraling down the drain for quite some time now with the management making little to no moves to get creative. Who cares if we lose more now? Just show us that you're doing something to make sure that we don't have to put up with 13 more, "rebuilding" years.

It's a tough, tough move to attempt to raise prices at this point. I propose that ticket prices go down $5 every season until we make the damn playoffs. Maybe that will get the organization as a whole to make some proper moves to ensure success.

 

This will be my second year as a STH.  I will be renewing my tickets, primarily because my family, especially my son loves basketball.

I don't think the W's are too worried about losing STHs.  I thought I heard Rowell say that there are 600 potential new STH who signed up for their Priority Seating list.  So they could have 600 current STHs give up their seats and still sellout the lower bowl.  Fact of the matter is that the W's are the only game in town, and that translated to easy money.

I've never had anything close to season tickets, but I sympathize with anyone who has to choose between demonstrating their love of the Ws as a game-attending fan, and demonstrating their love of their family as a provider.

I do have a suggestion for disgruntled Ws ticket-buyers: go to local college games. Especially women's games. There are two first-class women's teams now in the Bay Area--Stanford's been dominant for a long team, and now Cal is blowing up big time with the arrival of Devanei Hampton and Alexis Gray from Oakland Tech and Ashley (Tyler?) from the Central Valley. Alexis is a point guard in the Tim Hardaway mold--tough as nails, turns the corner faster than you while also muscling you out of the way, sees the floor while going full speed. Ashley and Devanei bring size, good hands, and perfect footwork to the low block. They're a pleasure to watch, and you can sit low in the stadium and watch up close for $10. Then, after the game, you can watch as these first-class athletes show less presumption and attitude than even the waterboys on a typical NBA team--mingling with fans, family, and friends. Oh, and they go to class and graduate.

Same kind of story at Stanford: great basketball, great seating available, great attitudes among the players.

So I and all the Warrior Nation will continue to bleed Thunderously on behalf of the Warriors, and follow every game one way or another, and will continue to attend Ws basketball in person when conscience and the pocketbook permit; but meanwhile, there are other great games around for much, much less.

It's Ashley Walker, not Tyler...should've checked before I wrote. Either way, she rocks.

I've been going to Warrior games as a STH for about 6-7 years now, and I'd like to bring up the point that a lot of the time I go not to see the Warriors but to see players like Shaq and Kobe or teams like the Pistons.

I hope this is going to change soon.

The Blog should buy season tickets and sell them off to the people here for the season ticket price. The price raises are ridiculous.

I will buy tickets when I stop believing that I could run the team better than Chris Mullin.  

As a kid, I worshipped at the Church of Mullin - nobody was more enjoyable to watch.  I remember Jim Barnett lavishing high praise on Mullin that he usually reserves for a Dunleavy chest pass.  But Mullin actually deserved Barnett's love.

As a GM, Mullin is very uninspiring.  I'm pretty sure this is well-chartered terriroty here, but the contracts for Foyle, Fisher, Dunleavy are straight out of Isaiah's playbook.  

I wasn't thrilled with the Murphy and J-Rich contracts at the time they were signed, because I felt that Mullin could have waited the year and gotten a better measure of how the league valued both players.  I also felt that the Murphy and J-Rich contracts left no room for either guy to be a bargain.  

I'm happy to be wrong about the J-Rich deal - right now, I view him as roughly the equal to Vince Carter, and he's the only one who seems to bring it every night.  I still feel that the Murphy contract was a mistake even though he is a decent contributor (he might prosper more in a different offense, where he can play center and fulfill his destiny as Bill Laimbeer without the attitude).

Mullin has drafted well and his trades have been satisfactory, though nothing spectacular.  The Baron Davis trade is certainly a feather in his cap, but it's the equivalent to invading Afghanistan after 9-11 - anybody could have done it.

Anyway, once I'm satisfied with how the Warriors are spending their money on the talent, I'll be more than happy to spend my money on tickets.