Tickets for Sunday\u2019s decisive seventh-game NBA Finals championship showdown between the Cleveland Cavaliers and defending champion Golden State are going for a king\u2019s ransom on the resale market.<\/p>\n
StubHub spokesman Cameron Papp says the ticket resale firm sold the most expensive non-suite seats in its 16-year history to the Father\u2019s Day matchup at Oakland\u2019s Oracle Arena, with each ticket going for $49,500 (43,900 euros).<\/p>\n
Papp told USA Today and ESPN that the unidentified purchaser of the courtside seats broke the website\u2019s old record of $37,000 for a front-row seat to game four of the 2008 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
The buyer was \u201cwell known,\u201d Papp told ESPN.<\/p>\n
StubHub also sold a ticket for $35,000 to last year\u2019s boxing showdown between Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao and unbeaten US fighter Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing really surprises me with the Warriors,\u201d Papp told USA Today. \u201cIt\u2019s a game seven and it\u2019s in Silicon Valley, where people have deep pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n
LeBron James scored 41 points in each of the past two games to spark Cleveland victories and rally the Cavaliers from a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven series to force the seventh-game winner-take-all showdown.<\/p>\n
The website sold five tickets to game six in Cleveland for $25,000 each.<\/p>\n
Either the Cavaliers will complete the greatest comeback in NBA history \u2013 no team has ever rallied from 3-1 down to win the finals \u2013 and the Warriors will suffer the greatest choke in finals history or the Warriors will cap a campaign that included a record 73 regular-season wins from 82 games with a crown and hand James his fifth loss in seven NBA Finals appearances, including his third defeat in a row.<\/p>\n
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Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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