First, the good news: If you want to watch the Nuggets and Avalanche keep making history, seats are available.
Less good: Those seats won’t come cheap — particularly.
Denver’s NBA and NHL franchises advanced into the next round of the respective playoff brackets in precisely the identical spring for the first time late last week, with the Nuggets moving beyond San Antonio to meet Portland from the NBA’s Western Conference semifinals, which begin Monday night at Pepsi Center. The Colorado Avalanche upset top-seeded Calgary in the first round of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs and will host San Jose at the next round of the best-of-seven series on Tuesday night for Game 3 and on Thursday evening for Game 4.
“The best advice for lovers looking to procure tickets to a playoff game at Pepsi Center is to visit both Nuggets and Avalanche team sites and follow on social as league retains are randomly published,” Becca Villanueva, director of marketing communications for Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, parents business of the Nuggets and Avs, told The Post. “This is our best source of information on open inventory. ”
Fans for either team can visit //www.altitudetickets.com for updates and availability.
In the event you’re shopping a la carte, the cheapest individual seat on the ticketing web site VividSeats.com for Game 1 of the Nuggets-Blazers series, before fees, was listed at $23, and was $54 for Game 2 at early Monday afternoon. The seat for Game 3 of Avs-Sharks was 82 before fees and for Game 4.
The purchase price disparity was comparable at SeatGeak.com, where Nuggets seats for Game 1 and 2 could be had for $33 and $66, respectively, after fees Monday afternoon. For the Avs, those numbers jumped to $133 for Game 3 and $125 for Game 4.
Why the gap? Demand, certainly. And postseason success — or lack of it, at the Nuggets’ instance, until this spring — could be a factor.
The Avs reached the Western Conference semifinals seven unique times, winning the Cup in 2001. Over that exact stretch, the Nuggets made one NBA Western Conference semifinal, in 2009, and have never won an NBA crown. The Nuggets have reached the postseason 11 times since 2000, but managed to progress past the first round only twice — in and this season 2009.
Kroenke Sports and Entertainment sent an email to season-ticket holders late Sunday night offering a suite package — 20 tickets and five parking passes — for $3,500 for Game 1 of Nuggets-Blazers on Monday and $5,000 for Game 2 on Wednesday, with individual suite tickets priced at $175 each. Suite packs were listed by the email for Avs-Sharks Game 3 on Tuesday at $5,000 and individual package tickets at $300, with suites for Game 4 on Thursday at $5,000 with individual package tickets priced at $250.
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