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Alex Martins addresses numerous issues
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Topic Started: Jun 1 2009, 02:52 PM (235 Views)
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adamosthegreek
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Jun 1 2009, 02:52 PM
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From history, to the team, to the new arena, to tickets: http://www.nba.com/magic/news/martins_magic_060109.html
Here's some important ticket info:
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On how hard it will be to get a ticket…
“It’s going to be hard. I’m going to be completely honest with you. It’s going to be very hard to get a ticket for a number of different factors: one thing that has happened during this run during the course of the last month and a half, is that our season-ticket base has exploded. As of yesterday, we have 2,700 new full-season ticket holders. They have the first opportunity to buy their tickets to the NBA Finals. There is a much a smaller universe today, than there even was 90 days ago in terms of those tickets that would be available. Couple that with the media contingent that will be here from all over the world, there will be live broadcasts of the game in dozens of different languages; those broadcast teams are coming in to broadcast the NBA Finals. So, the media contingent that will be here will be in excess of 1,500 media. Well, we have to take out normal fan seats to seat those media that cover the event. So you will see, there will be whole sections of our upper bowl that will be redesigned with tables and working spaces, that we wont be able to sell those seats to fans. It’s a good problem to have, but I think that the universe of tickets that will be available for sale will obviously be smaller than in a normal circumstance. I would hope that by the time we get to public sale, we will have a thousand or more. I think that’s possible. But again, it’s going to be contingent upon how many media reservations are made this week to cover The Finals and how many of our season ticket holders buy their tickets.”
On what will be done for fans that cannot purchase tickets…
“We’re going to do a number of different things. I’ve got 200 people upstairs putting the plans together this morning. From everything from major watch parties to different events around the community to help allow people to celebrate. Our block-party concept outside of the Amway Arena prior to games will be expanded. It was a great site, I don’t know if you all had the opportunity to get out there during the game, but we had almost 1,000 people during the game Saturday night, outside of Amway Arena, watching the game on big screens that we had out there. So, we will provide all of those kinds of opportunities. I know there are a number of other partners of ours that are looking to do other events along Orange Ave., Wall St. etcetera, that we are working with to put all those plans in place for today and we’ll have announcements about those as the week goes on. We are very focused on making sure that for those that don’t get the opportunity to be in the building, we can still touch through a number of different events during the Finals.”
On full-season tickets…
“Yesterday was an unbelievable day, being a Sunday, which we are normally not in operation on a Sunday, but we had our full sales team here answering the phone yesterday and we sold almost 400 full season tickets alone. It takes us right around the 11,000 mark. We are in the great position that we were in during the mid 90s with our similar success, and at some point here, and hopefully it’s in the next week or two, we are going to have to have the discussion about where we cap it off. Because we will not sell out the building on season tickets, it’s always been our policy; we want to make some tickets available on a single-game basis for the general fan that cannot afford a full season ticket. We also want to make tickets available to our groups. Groups has always been, particularly over the last 13 years, where it hasn’t been as big a season-ticket base, groups have been the lifeblood of filling that building up. We would sell three of four thousand tickets a game to different groups. So we want to hold tickets back for that as well. So hopefully we will be in that difficult position of where we cap it off over the course of the next few weeks.”
On ticket prices for next year…
“Well, earlier in this year, due to the economic climate and the challenges everyone is having at home, whether it’s through a lost job or our entire recessionary environment, we made the decision to freeze ticket prices for next year. We are not going back on that. We are going to freeze our ticket prices for next season at the level at which they were at this season. It still is a very affordable option, despite what the public’s perception may be. We have over 7,500 tickets prices at $27 or less. It’s still a good, affordable option and we are going to continue that going into the new Events Center. As a matter of fact, we are going to expand upon that. We’ve made a commitment that we are going to have a $5 ticket in the new building because of all of the other opportunities that present themselves with the new building itself. So, we are very conscious of trying to keep this a product that everyone has access to. So, whether you are someone that can afford a $5 ticket or a $500 ticket, we want to continue to make this accessible to everyone.”
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dxwwf3
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Jun 1 2009, 04:56 PM
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I'm hoping to get an email for another Insider presale just like every other series so far. I heard it was going to be Friday at 2 PM, but I haven't got an email with a code from the Magic yet.
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Kwik10z
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Jun 1 2009, 07:53 PM
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- dxwwf3
- Jun. 1, 2009 04:56 PM
I'm hoping to get an email for another Insider presale just like every other series so far. I heard it was going to be Friday at 2 PM, but I haven't got an email with a code from the Magic yet.
are you talking about a code for the NBA store sale?
If so, please fill me in, so i can scrounge up some Blue and white Ignite gear!!
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liltmac572
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Jun 2 2009, 12:11 PM
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hey im coming down from maryland what is some advice on how to get tickets. i hope to be down in orlando by saturday
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iceveins333
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Jun 2 2009, 01:21 PM
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man i really hope somebody gets the presale password. i got the one for the ECF but i keep hearing conflicting stories that the magic are gonna change it up this time. I just wish it wasnt so hard to get the tickets just so some bandwagon fans can go to the game just to be seen there and not even start cheering until rashard lewis hits the turnaround 3 in game 4 to take a 2 pt lead.
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liltmac572
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Jun 2 2009, 01:50 PM
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bandwagon fans always our present i can't stand dem either
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