Resale prices for tickets to the Warriors' first-round games in Sacramento are through the roof. One ticket reseller says that Saturday night's Game 1 in Sacramento is the most expensive in NBA playoff history for a non-Finals game.
All week, news stories have marveled at what seems impossible: Something is twice as expensive in Sacramento as in San Francisco. A slew of stories attributed it to pent-up hype in the Kings fanbase, which hasn't seen a playoff game since 2006, and the fact that the two cities are separated by fewer than a hundred miles apart.