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Sounds Like Getting Sixers Season Tickets Wasn’t as Brutal as Everyone Expected
By Matt Schultz
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Of all the early storylines that came from LeBron James signing with the Sixers, one of the loudest has been concerns about ticket prices – and for good reason. Screenshots of early prices for the home opener looked daunting. Forbes was reporting Sixers preseason ticket prices jumped 142% from last year. The LeBron effect seemed like it was in full swing, and many were left asking: how crazy are season ticket prices going to be?
According to this Sixers Reddit post, the answer is… actually not that bad:
Wrote u/pineapplesurf908:
“Pricing of what’s available! Timeslot was 9am Aug 18th. Worth noting that they are doing a 7 month payment plan compared to a 10 month payment plan like before so monthly payments are higher. Was looking at my pricing for last year and paid $1113/seat for the half season, this year paying $1870/seat to be 3 rows higher.”
To reiterate/summarize, this guy got a 22-game package for two seats in the second level, with each seat priced at $85 per game. He also mentions that last year, he paid about $51 per seat in an almost identical section and row. So now he’s paying $34 more per game for each seat.
I gotta agree with RobbieAnalog here. That’s really not bad at all:
Especially when you consider what these tickets are probably going to go for on the resale market. You gotta figure it’s gonna be pretty nuts. I wouldn’t be surprised if one ticket for an upper-level seat in any given regular season game went for $200. Just a medium-interesting, not-that-important game, I’m saying. Like when Detroit comes to town. Or Indiana. Those teams will be good, but they’re not massive draws — and I could still see the price of admission being around $200.
Then imagine we’re talking about a meaningful matchup that people care about: the Cavs, the Celtics, the Heat, the Knicks, the Warriors, etc. — then these seats could go for what, $250? $300? More? Wouldn’t shock me at all. We’re talking late-stage LeBron. here. People are gonna want to come see this guy play.
And by selling two tickets he bought for $170 ($85 per seat) for $700 ($350 per seat), this Redditor would be making over $500 for doing nothing. That… is pretty sick… Imagine he sells half his games…. He will be rich…
Also, this is cool — it’s nice that the deposit went toward the overall price and wasn’t just flushed down the toilet:
And it looks like this Reddit guy wasn’t alone in being pleasantly surprised by the price he paid. This X user had a similar takeaway:
That’s a steal
— YoCliff (@CliffNotez_) August 18, 2026
Great deal
— DEATH // STRAWBERRY (@xxTHATCH0xx) August 18, 2026
I also stumbled upon this TickPick tweet. I don’t know exactly how they get these numbers, but if the rest of the regular season games sell for even close to what’s on this chart, season ticket holders are gonna be in real good shape:
This is good stuff all around. Congrats to fans who were able to hop on the waitlist and snag ticket packages. Hats off to the Sixers for not completely price-gouging the fans. And thank you to LeBron, once again, who is making this all possible. Exciting times.
Kinkead: I talked to a STH who also got a half season, 22 games, for $85 each. Seats up in the 200s near the corner, not bad at all honestly. “Prices were actually more reasonable than I thought,” they said.
Matt Schultz is a comedy and sports writer from Philadelphia. He’s written extensively for ClickHole, The Onion, and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco. His work has been featured in Vulture, Deadspin, The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, and other publications. Much of his sports journalism can be found on college basketball websites that don’t exist anymore (PhilaHoops Heads rise up…) email: M.Schultz@sportradar.com