The figure of the Los Angeles Lakers exceeded all forecasts of his success in the North American league by shooting not only the scoring numbers in a basketball hoop, but many numbers related to historical fact.
Tickets at $30,200. 225 million views across networks. Three million viewers on live television in the USA. With this great hope, the milestone of LeBron Jameswhich was surpassed this Tuesday, February 7 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and became the top scorer in the history of National Basketball Association.
One figure was on the minds of basketball fans around the world on February 7: the 36 points he needed. lebron to beat the legendary score of Abdul Jabbar of 38,387 points in total. But other numbers -and the business- around memorable matches in between los angeles lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder also explain the scale of this historical event for nba.
For example, the league detailed that the aforementioned was the most-watched regular season match on the TNT cable network in nearly five years without counting the opening games of each season. Three million people on average watched USA live the record of James and the peak comes at 8:45 pm The Angelswhen the star of lakers culminated in his success, with 3.7 million fans glued to the television.
This figure, however, left people who chose to watch the game on Spectrum SportsNet, which has the rights to broadcast matches of lakers in California. This channel, which has a number of commentators who are former players of the California franchise such as James Worthy either Derek Fisherfollowing daily and all meetings of the purple and gold and its parent company agreed in 2011 to pay 3,000 million dollars to manage the regional rights of lakers for 20 years.
Even more surprising -and more in line with the 21st century- is the record data of the impact on social networks with 225 million video views on the profiles of nba. The league detailed that this number of ‘engagements’ among the networks was the highest ever recorded for a regular season match.
Those unhappy with watching the game on screens had to empty their wallets to get to the Crypto.com Arena of The Angels. So, five days before the match, a ticket at the foot of the court for lakers–Thunder It costs about $30,200, according to data from the resale reference portal StubHub.
However, those who played with fire waiting until the last minute were not burned because, two hours before the start of the game, a ticket for the highest and farthest row of the stadium can be bought on the same portal for about $290 ( five day earlier the most affordable stadium tickets cost 386).
There was doubt whether lebron will get a record against Thunder on or before Tuesday Milwaukee Bucks two days later. For this reason, when the record is reached, the expectation about the match between lakers and the currencies of Giannis Antetokounmpoone of the best teams in nbafall and on Wednesday night you can buy tickets for that game for ‘only’ $98.
Source: Tycsports
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