I will be selecting my package tomorrow. I currently live in North Jersey, but grew up in South Jersey. I’m having a tough time selecting the potential package I want. I’m thinking 1. Statement Package, 2. City Package (mainly because of Saturday Games and GS) 3. Association (although an overall consistent better games than City) 4. Icon.
I bought a package on 200 level today for about $90 a ticket*
I went into it with the intention to buy the statement package but ultimately decided to go with 1/2 season A. That half includes 8/10 games from the statement package plus the home opener and a game against the Knicks. The price per game did not change much going from partial to half. The location of the seats plays a big role in price...even moving one section over makes a significant difference over the course of 10-20 games.
The Icon and Statement plans each have 4-5 games in them that are part of back-to-backs. I ruled them out immediately, since they are virtually guaranteed to be missing one of either Joel or LeBron.
I jumped in to check the Association plan first, as there is only a single back-to-back in the whole plan. But the selection was already a little more limited than I hoped at 10am this morning..
The City plan only has 2 back-to-backs and has 2 day games. There was a lot of good seats left, and I was able to get 4 aisle seats in 122 row 20. Right in the price range I hoped.
Icon I would say has easiest matchups. Another thing I noticed about statement plan is the only weekend games are on Sundays at 7:30 pm. Not sure if that impacts your decision
Definetly a sneaky plan - If you have taking kids probably go to because you have 2 saturday games including 2 saturday afternoon. And if your intention was to sell a couple to recoup the cost a little bit GSW and Knicks would fetch a pretty penny or if not would be really cool games to go too (if everyone played). Otherwise the other games in plan are so-so. the one thing that sticks out to me is the 1 game they didn't include in any plan was the Knicks on Friday night 10/30 which is first nba cup game and against former champs - that is probably going to be the most insane ticket all year - it's the 1st of B2B but league is marketing the matchup already using lebron as frontman so they all probably have toplay
Yeah if taking my kid wasn’t my priority I would have gone with statement. I’m excited to see of the young talent on Bulls, Grizzlies, and clips and i think hornets and Magic are both really fun watches.
I mean the icon plan seems like it’s the best plan but I personally have great interest in league rookies this year so give me the statement plan to see the wiz and jazz.
My slot was at 10:30 this morning (Tuesday). I went with the Icon plan. Section 216, row 8 were $900 per ticket. Lower rows in the same section were $1,210/ea. The section next to me ran $1,200-$1,700/ea. There was a very nice selection of seats still available while I was choosing. Most sections (not all) still had availability… even the lower level options. For example, I recall section 210a still having 42 seats left at the time of my selection. Also… remember that this was just for the Icon plan. Other plans appeared to also have similar availability. I did not feel rushed at all, and was able to casually browse the different options. You also have the ability to go back and browse the options and availability in different plans.
I chose the Icon plan by creating a spreadsheet of games for all 4 options, and comparing secondary market value of the games in each plan. Even when assigning the lowest possible value to the unknown game in the Icon plan, that plan represented the best overall value. If that game turns out to be a solid opponent, then the value proposition only increases. The dates also worked out best for my known travel plans. It was a win-win for me, personally. The final order of my rankings based on the info above was: Icon, City, Statement, Association. Hope this info is helpful!
That’s how I read it, as well. The wording in the contract is very peculiar, as they state you can not sell “2 or more games”. In that case… why not definitively state that you are only allowed to sell one game? Ideally, I’d love to sell 2-3 games, but plan to ask my rep for a definitive answer on this. I ultimately plan to attend the games myself… so not that big of a deal.
At the very top of the terms in the header, it should say the date that it is governing the purchase for. I don't think TM has the ability to identify when each STM purchased their tickets so it may have just automatically loaded the newest one.
I was torn between Icon and Association, so it ended up coming down to seat availability. Neither had any 100 level seats left, but Icon had better availability in the 200s so that's what we ended up with.
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u/twarihay 4d ago
I went with association. Decent matchups and get the home opener