Going to a Hawks game is kind of depressing, even when we win. I was there at the Wizards game and saw loads of empty seats.
Also, why is everyone in Atlanta afraid to cheer? So many times I’m the only one yelling when I go, like 95% of the fanbase is “too cool” to yell defense or anything. It honestly sucks
Every fucking game I go to the only time these lame mfs cheer is for a free Chic fil a sandwich on missed free throws
It’s too expensive for decent seats
Between the price of tickets, parking, and concessions for just a single game that easily runs me double what I pay DirecTV every month to watch the Hawks on television.
We go to 10-15 games a season but god damn it is not cheap. We sit in the 200s too.
Transient city !
if it makes you feel any better, State Farm is the 2nd smallest arena in the league. With that said, they still have the 2nd worst road attendance.
Tickets are too expensive for your average joe.
People are broke.
Atlanta is consistently one of the worst cities in the country to drive in. Why would anyone want to suffer that for a .500 basketball team? I live in Athens now, I’m not driving an hour and a half (more like two hours) for us to choke to the wizards when I can watch it on my couch for free and be in bed at a reasonable hour.
And before any of y’all say I’m not a real fan, I went to 20 home games in 2017. I’ve been in the trenches for this team. The difference being back then tickets cost practically nothing.
They’ve mostly priced me out of games against good teams
Ain’t nobody got time with all the traffic to get home after work, shower, change, get ready, whatever, then drive alllllllll the way to the arena, park (expensive), walk a mile or 2 to get in the arena, get food & drinks (expensive) find the seat, and sit and watch only half a game. then just drive back home cuz you gotta work early the next day. its miserable. I wont do it unless I got work off either that day or the next.
I want a hawks championship, I could care less about the attendance numbers. If they win, people will come.
I payed $200 for 4 tickets to sit all the way at the top. Like 2 rows from the top. Not that expensive but it was against the wizard. I’ve sat court side before. I wanna say i paid close to 2k.
Realistically, we aren’t top contenders. So I’m not inclined to spend 2k again. I also don’t want to pay 200 to see the wizards. Good teams start costing over 300, close to 400 for these same top seats. So until we’re a better team and get more wins, not much is gonna change. Hawks gotta prove there worth the price for people
we will have better turnout when we have a better value for the product (team gets better) (or tickets get cheaper but we know that’s not happening)
As a season ticket holder, I am so happy to see this.
Fuck the hawks organization for raising prices
Where are some of you looking for tickets at? StubHub has 5th row in the 200s although behind the backboard for the Dallas game at 18$ per. If that prices you out, then you shouldn’t be considering going to any sporting event. The Dallas game two years ago was close to 100 for the upper section. Stop using price as the excuse. Fans have become apathetic and don’t see the value for watching an underperforming team. That’s the problem. The hawks had one of the highest % of home tickets sold last year and prices went down this year. Stop using the falcons and Benz excuse for this team. It’s false. And even then it’s wrong because Benz has been affordable since mid season 2017 except for games against big fan bases.
It’s somewhat easy to understand unfortunately— for the last decade we have not shown any evidence of having a shot at winning a championship. Except for the crazy ECF run (where we sold out State Farm every game), it’s been bleak. When your team winning % is mid at best, people especially in the south will not show up. Win consistently and change the culture. We show up for winners
No reliable transportation for most folks/horrible parking (problem everywhere in the US tbh).
Nothing interesting around Statefarm Arena (Downtown kinda sucks, Let’s see if the Gulch development will be cool)
Team is still not winning
Not paying 45 bucks to see .500 gameplay from the middle 200 bowl.
Not a lot live in Atlanta (the actual city)
The hawks haven’t exactly excelled in Atlanta so it’ll take some big time winning. Especially with Braves and falcons being top dogs pro sports wise
– fickle fanbase – small arena – overpriced tickets
Maybe I’d go to the games if the tickets weren’t crazy expensive for no reason.
games are too expensive if the opponent is anyone at all worth seeing.
you get the bonus of showing up and players randomly just taking the night off – which isn’t great.
it’s a pretty big ask of the fans to battle atlanta traffic on a weeknight, overpay, and then possibly not get to see stars play.
Tony Ressler makes everything too expensive while not spending enough on the team. Also we suck
THE TICKETS ARE TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!
Upper bowl tickets should be $5-$25. As a college student, it would be very hard for me to justify paying almost $75 for a couple of tickets for the upper bowl, then paying for parking, and getting water/food.
A Monday night game against a random western conference team shouldn’t cost you several hundred dollars to watch the game anywhere outside of court side.
Oh and we haven’t been good enough to justify the wild ticket price increase the last four seasons.
I went to a shit ton of games during the tanking years because I could actually afford it, but now I have to sail the high seas just to watch them.
Ima say it, the Knicks fans embarrassed us this past game against them, it seemed like they were the home team dude like wtf😂😂
We’ve had a shit home schedule so far too. It’ll average out and we’ll be mid pack as long as we get and stay above .500.
Crowds are always softer in the fall when they are competing against football.
While I’m happy with the moves management has made for the team recently, the on court product still doesn’t match up with the ticket prices. Also, Atlanta is a transplant city so there aren’t many natives. Combine that with the Hawks having a losing culture and you get poor attendance.
I can tell you that me and 4 buddies all cancelled our season tickets from last year. We were Mid AF all year, handled FA during the season awfully, and the product on the court was awful at times last year. We also upgraded to the “All Star Package” as we did a half season, and yet I saw every Wizards, Orlando, other bottom feeder teams. Like it was just marketing bs which didn’t feel good as a consumer getting lied to by the ticket guy.
On top of that, they reduced the freebie Hawks bucks and some other benefits. Not to mention, the concession prices are outrageous. $16 for a beer, and their food is $20-30 for chicken fingers and fries. You’ll easily spend $200 a night on food / beer / ticket prices unless you sit nosebleeds. I sat lower bowl and literally had ticket master away fans behind and around me every game with only a few people around us ST holders.
Idk man, wasn’t that great. We start off slow, ton of injuries, lose Washington 2x in b2b’s, I’d be turned off too.
If you give fans a great team to cheer for, They’re gonna show up. If you give them a mediocre product, this is the result. Atlanta is always a pretty Fairweather market When it comes to all sports teams, Not named the Braves. The Hawks have been a Play in team For three years in a row. Atlanta Is not gonna show up in droves to watch a team like this. If we become a title contender, trust and believe this will change. It won’t change overnight, but eventually it will.
Wins and consistency put butts in seats. Why else would people go?
I can go to like 3 Atlanta United games for the price of one hawks game lol
Plus the drinks / food is cheaper in the benz
Week night games are especially brutal. When we hosted the Knicks, their fans were way louder than we were
Probably, but Hawks need to support fans better too, yo. Been to SFA lately? – easily the worst food of any local sports venue – concession prices are laughably high – traffic not great getting in and out – premium ticket prices, and a locked down secondary market – not on tv in a way that is easy to access
It just takes a half ass good falcons team to drain the audience this time of year. Expect it will get better.
Tickets and concessions are wayyyy too expensive—ESPECIALLY for a team that refuses to go into luxury tax.
Our TV deal is ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Wish I still lived in Atlanta. Back when I was there, I couldn’t afford to go to many games. I would go to so so many now 🙁
Y’all gotta stop making excuses and keep it real. Atlanta is not a Basketball City. We won’t get support until we win a championship. Even then I still think we won’t have consistent support. Random people still think the hawks suck like we did in 2004-05.
Low effort from the team have made me stop attending. The product has been bad . It”s frustrating watching them jack up threes or run to refs when things don’t go their way
I’ve been to three games and always cheer as loud as I can. If you’re gonna go, make some damn noise.
I think the city is a little jaded toward this franchise right now and with good reason. They will need to earn back any trust they did have.
there is much more to do in ATL then to go watch a middling basketball team
it seems to me that in atmosphere European basketball wins by far. Look for videos especially from Serbian and Greek league fans, it’s absolutely awesome.
Here at least in Spain, there are not 82 games per season is played only on weekends and season tickets are sold for the entire season that are generally transferable, if you can not go to a game you look for a friend who is of your team to go in your place and do not stay your seat empty, the rival fans usually have a place away from the local ultras and they are charged a much more expensive price, also each pass holder can buy tickets at more affordable prices for other fans.
Tickets are also given away to schools and children’s teams to build a strong fan base.
I don’t know if any of this will be done in Atlanta, but here they would rather make less money on tickets but have the arena full of people pushing the team than make a lot of money selling tickets.
I’m talking about my city that has a small team, I imagine that in Madrid or Barcelona that have much more demand the prices will be very expensive.
In short, it is preferable to sell cheaper tickets or give them away to children than to have the arena empty.
State Farm is one of the smallest arenas in the league. 15,833 out of its 16,600 capacity is still 95%. But regardless the product is mediocre and has been for several years. Better product, bigger crowds, more excitement. Fuck Tony Ressler.
Perennial play-in team with no championships in a transient city. They’ve also priced fans out of most decent games, and most will opt to watch Hawks vs Wizards/Nets type games at home.
It’s awful to get to State Farm or Mercedes Benz if you don’t live downtown. The parking is awful. The walk to the stadiums is awful. The surrounding restaurants and bars are awful. Then beyond all that, it’s also too expensive. I go in the playoffs, but it’s just too much to go for a regular season matchup.
Ticket prices are insane, and the organization have priced everyone out besides the suit-wearing, afraid to cheer loudly rich folks who wouldn’t be caught dead wearing Hawks gear in their court side seats
I need tickets to be cheaper
Win games and people will show up. Phillip’s in 2015 and State Farm in 2021 were both electric. Especially that 2015 season
I’m in Idaho, sucks being a hawks fan out here 😔 think I’m the only one in the city lmao
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Going to a Hawks game is kind of depressing, even when we win. I was there at the Wizards game and saw loads of empty seats.
Also, why is everyone in Atlanta afraid to cheer? So many times I’m the only one yelling when I go, like 95% of the fanbase is “too cool” to yell defense or anything. It honestly sucks
Every fucking game I go to the only time these lame mfs cheer is for a free Chic fil a sandwich on missed free throws
It’s too expensive for decent seats
Between the price of tickets, parking, and concessions for just a single game that easily runs me double what I pay DirecTV every month to watch the Hawks on television.
We go to 10-15 games a season but god damn it is not cheap. We sit in the 200s too.
Transient city !
if it makes you feel any better, State Farm is the 2nd smallest arena in the league. With that said, they still have the 2nd worst road attendance.
Tickets are too expensive for your average joe.
People are broke.
Atlanta is consistently one of the worst cities in the country to drive in. Why would anyone want to suffer that for a .500 basketball team? I live in Athens now, I’m not driving an hour and a half (more like two hours) for us to choke to the wizards when I can watch it on my couch for free and be in bed at a reasonable hour.
And before any of y’all say I’m not a real fan, I went to 20 home games in 2017. I’ve been in the trenches for this team. The difference being back then tickets cost practically nothing.
They’ve mostly priced me out of games against good teams
Ain’t nobody got time with all the traffic to get home after work, shower, change, get ready, whatever, then drive alllllllll the way to the arena, park (expensive), walk a mile or 2 to get in the arena, get food & drinks (expensive) find the seat, and sit and watch only half a game. then just drive back home cuz you gotta work early the next day. its miserable. I wont do it unless I got work off either that day or the next.
I want a hawks championship, I could care less about the attendance numbers. If they win, people will come.
I payed $200 for 4 tickets to sit all the way at the top. Like 2 rows from the top. Not that expensive but it was against the wizard. I’ve sat court side before. I wanna say i paid close to 2k.
Realistically, we aren’t top contenders. So I’m not inclined to spend 2k again. I also don’t want to pay 200 to see the wizards. Good teams start costing over 300, close to 400 for these same top seats. So until we’re a better team and get more wins, not much is gonna change. Hawks gotta prove there worth the price for people
we will have better turnout when we have a better value for the product (team gets better) (or tickets get cheaper but we know that’s not happening)
As a season ticket holder, I am so happy to see this.
Fuck the hawks organization for raising prices
Where are some of you looking for tickets at? StubHub has 5th row in the 200s although behind the backboard for the Dallas game at 18$ per. If that prices you out, then you shouldn’t be considering going to any sporting event. The Dallas game two years ago was close to 100 for the upper section. Stop using price as the excuse. Fans have become apathetic and don’t see the value for watching an underperforming team. That’s the problem. The hawks had one of the highest % of home tickets sold last year and prices went down this year. Stop using the falcons and Benz excuse for this team. It’s false. And even then it’s wrong because Benz has been affordable since mid season 2017 except for games against big fan bases.
It’s somewhat easy to understand unfortunately— for the last decade we have not shown any evidence of having a shot at winning a championship. Except for the crazy ECF run (where we sold out State Farm every game), it’s been bleak. When your team winning % is mid at best, people especially in the south will not show up. Win consistently and change the culture. We show up for winners
No reliable transportation for most folks/horrible parking (problem everywhere in the US tbh).
Nothing interesting around Statefarm Arena (Downtown kinda sucks, Let’s see if the Gulch development will be cool)
Team is still not winning
Not paying 45 bucks to see .500 gameplay from the middle 200 bowl.
Not a lot live in Atlanta (the actual city)
The hawks haven’t exactly excelled in Atlanta so it’ll take some big time winning. Especially with Braves and falcons being top dogs pro sports wise
– fickle fanbase
– small arena
– overpriced tickets
Maybe I’d go to the games if the tickets weren’t crazy expensive for no reason.
games are too expensive if the opponent is anyone at all worth seeing.
you get the bonus of showing up and players randomly just taking the night off – which isn’t great.
it’s a pretty big ask of the fans to battle atlanta traffic on a weeknight, overpay, and then possibly not get to see stars play.
Tony Ressler makes everything too expensive while not spending enough on the team. Also we suck
THE TICKETS ARE TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!
Upper bowl tickets should be $5-$25. As a college student, it would be very hard for me to justify paying almost $75 for a couple of tickets for the upper bowl, then paying for parking, and getting water/food.
A Monday night game against a random western conference team shouldn’t cost you several hundred dollars to watch the game anywhere outside of court side.
Oh and we haven’t been good enough to justify the wild ticket price increase the last four seasons.
I went to a shit ton of games during the tanking years because I could actually afford it, but now I have to sail the high seas just to watch them.
Ima say it, the Knicks fans embarrassed us this past game against them, it seemed like they were the home team dude like wtf😂😂
We’ve had a shit home schedule so far too. It’ll average out and we’ll be mid pack as long as we get and stay above .500.
Crowds are always softer in the fall when they are competing against football.
While I’m happy with the moves management has made for the team recently, the on court product still doesn’t match up with the ticket prices. Also, Atlanta is a transplant city so there aren’t many natives. Combine that with the Hawks having a losing culture and you get poor attendance.
I can tell you that me and 4 buddies all cancelled our season tickets from last year. We were Mid AF all year, handled FA during the season awfully, and the product on the court was awful at times last year. We also upgraded to the “All Star Package” as we did a half season, and yet I saw every Wizards, Orlando, other bottom feeder teams. Like it was just marketing bs which didn’t feel good as a consumer getting lied to by the ticket guy.
On top of that, they reduced the freebie Hawks bucks and some other benefits. Not to mention, the concession prices are outrageous. $16 for a beer, and their food is $20-30 for chicken fingers and fries. You’ll easily spend $200 a night on food / beer / ticket prices unless you sit nosebleeds. I sat lower bowl and literally had ticket master away fans behind and around me every game with only a few people around us ST holders.
Idk man, wasn’t that great. We start off slow, ton of injuries, lose Washington 2x in b2b’s, I’d be turned off too.
If you give fans a great team to cheer for, They’re gonna show up. If you give them a mediocre product, this is the result. Atlanta is always a pretty Fairweather market When it comes to all sports teams, Not named the Braves. The Hawks have been a Play in team For three years in a row. Atlanta Is not gonna show up in droves to watch a team like this. If we become a title contender, trust and believe this will change. It won’t change overnight, but eventually it will.
Wins and consistency put butts in seats. Why else would people go?
I can go to like 3 Atlanta United games for the price of one hawks game lol
Plus the drinks / food is cheaper in the benz
Week night games are especially brutal. When we hosted the Knicks, their fans were way louder than we were
Probably, but Hawks need to support fans better too, yo. Been to SFA lately?
– easily the worst food of any local sports venue
– concession prices are laughably high
– traffic not great getting in and out
– premium ticket prices, and a locked down secondary market
– not on tv in a way that is easy to access
It just takes a half ass good falcons team to drain the audience this time of year. Expect it will get better.
Tickets and concessions are wayyyy too expensive—ESPECIALLY for a team that refuses to go into luxury tax.
Our TV deal is ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Hi Have a Nice Tuesday.
Toodles.
Wish I still lived in Atlanta. Back when I was there, I couldn’t afford to go to many games. I would go to so so many now 🙁
Y’all gotta stop making excuses and keep it real. Atlanta is not a Basketball City. We won’t get support until we win a championship. Even then I still think we won’t have consistent support. Random people still think the hawks suck like we did in 2004-05.
Low effort from the team have made me stop attending. The product has been bad . It”s frustrating watching them jack up threes or run to refs when things don’t go their way
I’ve been to three games and always cheer as loud as I can. If you’re gonna go, make some damn noise.
I think the city is a little jaded toward this franchise right now and with good reason. They will need to earn back any trust they did have.
there is much more to do in ATL then to go watch a middling basketball team
it seems to me that in atmosphere European basketball wins by far. Look for videos especially from Serbian and Greek league fans, it’s absolutely awesome.
Here at least in Spain, there are not 82 games per season is played only on weekends and season tickets are sold for the entire season that are generally transferable, if you can not go to a game you look for a friend who is of your team to go in your place and do not stay your seat empty, the rival fans usually have a place away from the local ultras and they are charged a much more expensive price, also each pass holder can buy tickets at more affordable prices for other fans.
Tickets are also given away to schools and children’s teams to build a strong fan base.
I don’t know if any of this will be done in Atlanta, but here they would rather make less money on tickets but have the arena full of people pushing the team than make a lot of money selling tickets.
I’m talking about my city that has a small team, I imagine that in Madrid or Barcelona that have much more demand the prices will be very expensive.
In short, it is preferable to sell cheaper tickets or give them away to children than to have the arena empty.
State Farm is one of the smallest arenas in the league. 15,833 out of its 16,600 capacity is still 95%. But regardless the product is mediocre and has been for several years. Better product, bigger crowds, more excitement. Fuck Tony Ressler.
Perennial play-in team with no championships in a transient city. They’ve also priced fans out of most decent games, and most will opt to watch Hawks vs Wizards/Nets type games at home.
It’s awful to get to State Farm or Mercedes Benz if you don’t live downtown. The parking is awful. The walk to the stadiums is awful. The surrounding restaurants and bars are awful. Then beyond all that, it’s also too expensive. I go in the playoffs, but it’s just too much to go for a regular season matchup.
Ticket prices are insane, and the organization have priced everyone out besides the suit-wearing, afraid to cheer loudly rich folks who wouldn’t be caught dead wearing Hawks gear in their court side seats
I need tickets to be cheaper
Win games and people will show up. Phillip’s in 2015 and State Farm in 2021 were both electric. Especially that 2015 season
I’m in Idaho, sucks being a hawks fan out here 😔 think I’m the only one in the city lmao