karen lotz;674935 wrote:Ummm its relevant because that was the last season without LeBron. You can't count this season because season tickets were sold out before LeBron announced he was leaving. Like I said, let's revisit the attendance numbers at this point next season. How is anything I said baseless opinion exactly?
How is it baseless? You assume that attendance will return to what it was the season before LeBron based on nothing more than LeBron's presence. You fail to remember that the Cavs were still freaking black and light blue back in those days. The Q was still the Gund. Dan Gilbert wasn't the owner. An entire new generation of fans (and ticket holders) has grown up in 9 years (like how I was too young to buy tickets in 2002 but now ohave the funds to do so). The entire downtown area is different than it was 9 years ago. That season was also a culmination of the 5 years of losing that took place before it. To say that attendance will automatically go back down to that level is an opinion not a fact.
Also you ignored my points about not every seat being a season ticket seat and that the season ticket holder still has a choice of whether or not they want to attend the game. Facts aren't play dough. You can't mold them and shape them to fit your argument