The In-Season Tournament format means a bunch of tickets are available for Tuesday's Bucks game
The Milwaukee Bucks will host the New York Knicks in the quarterfinals of the league's new In-Season Tournament on Tuesday at Fiserv Forum, and the new quirk in the schedule means a plethora of extra tickets are available.
Since the game wasn't originally given a concrete date and time on the schedule, the Dec. 5 clash (6:30 p.m. CT tip) couldn't be a part of most season-ticket packages or group-sales strategies. When Milwaukee defeated Miami on Tuesday, it triggered the quarterfinal home game at Fiserv Forum one week later.
"What we've seen since the end of the game Tuesday night is really incredible demand for those seats now that people know it's a quarterfinal game," said Dustin Godsey, the Bucks' chief sales and marketing officer. "We've seen almost like what we see when we put tickets on sale for a playoff game, once it's clinched."
Single-game tickets are still available in every section according to Ticketmaster, with prices as low as $40. Tickets are available now at www.bucks.com/single.
Fans watching the broadcast of Milwaukee's game Thursday night in Chicago will likely catch opportunities for special deals to the game against the Knicks. Godsey said there's also limited availability of premium options like suites and lofts that wouldn't normally be available on a single-game basis.
The inaugural In-Season Tournament included four initially scheduled "pool play" games during the course of the regular season, and by virtue of going 4-0 in those games, the Bucks earned a home game and a spot in the quarterfinals. A win against the Knicks would put the Bucks in the semifinals Dec. 7 in Las Vegas.
"(The In-Season Tournament) has exceeded my expectations and everybody's expectations," Godsey said. "The first game of the group play, you just never know in the building what the atmosphere is going to be like, if it feels different from a regular-season game. All the way through, it's felt different. ... The viewing experience Tuesday night almost felt like the first night of the NCAA Tournament, checking out different games and seeing who's winning where."
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