Quote Originally Posted by PhiAlpha View Post
I don't think they are that worried about selling tickets next year. They've already sold the season tickets and understand that ticket sales may be lighter over the next few years for the greater good long term. Same thing happened between 2006-2009, they traded away the high salary assets to get under the cap and out of mediocrity, got 3 seasons worth of top 5 picks, and rebuilt the team. They knew the ticket sales have potential to take a dive for a few years during the rebuilding phase and have been prepared to take the hit...it's just coming a year or two earlier than they planned.

Being mediocre just to sell tickets doesn't make any sense anyway. They don't want to be the Knicks. Why would they want to be anything other than terrible for the next year or two and risk hurting our draft position?
They may have already met their renewal goal for this season or close to it. We're a one major league market with 1.4 million metropolitan area, 400,000 excess of what's needed to support a top 4 major league tier sport.

A surprisingly high percentage of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 14,000 season tickets are sold to Tulsa County residents. Approximately 1,000 of those tickets are purchased by Tulsans.
IIRC, the season tickets capped out at 14,000: https://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/bi...68722181e.html

Longest Active NBA Sellout Streaks
*as of 11/11/18

Team_____________________________________Start Date________Streak
20,013 - Dallas Mavericks...........................02/15/01.................761
19,640 - Miami Heat....................................04/23/10.................394
18,203 - Oklahoma City Thunder...............02/22/11.................359 (382 ending 2019)
19,596 - Golden State Warriors..................12/18/12.................310

Notice: OKC is the only small market franchise among the 4 active sellout streaks.