NBA postseason · 15% championship tier
Your playoff package was priced before the season had a story. Now every win reprices what you’re holding.
NBA postseason inventory reaches season ticket holders as round-by-round packages, bought at face value on faith and refunded if the games never happen. When the run is real, you hold the scarcest championship product in American sports — playoff basketball in a building that seats 18,000, with national demand chasing it.
Playoff packages: bought on faith, sold on results
Like every league, NBA postseason inventory reaches season ticket holders as round-by-round packages — invoiced at face value before anyone knows how far the team goes, with unplayed games refunded or credited. You are, in effect, buying a call option on your own team’s season. If the run happens, you hold the scarcest product in American sports.
Scarcity is the NBA’s defining seller feature. An NBA arena seats a fraction of a football stadium. Playoff demand is national, corporate and celebrity-driven, and it is chasing roughly a third of the seats a stadium event offers. That’s why lower-bowl playoff seats in a serious market reach numbers that shock the people holding them.
The play-in: the strangest ticket in basketball
Teams finishing 7th through 10th enter the play-in tournament, and the mechanics create a seller situation that exists nowhere else. The 7-vs-8 winner takes the 7 seed. The 9-vs-10 loser is eliminated on the spot. The survivor plays the 7/8 loser for the final seed. Every one of those games is a single-elimination home game for the higher seed — a one-off, win-or-go-home event in a building that seats 18,000.
For a season ticket holder, that produces a strange asset: a game that may or may not exist, at a date that isn’t fixed, with playoff-level stakes and no series to fall back on. Demand is intense and compressed into days. Sellers who wait for certainty are selling into the last 48 hours of a market that peaked earlier.
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Every round reprices the one behind it
| Stage | What drives it | Seller reality |
|---|---|---|
| Play-in | Single elimination, home floor, no tomorrow. | Explosive and brief. Exists only if the seeding lands that way. |
| First round (best-of-7) | Local demand, four potential home games for the higher seed. | Game 6 at home — a potential closeout — is usually the round’s peak. |
| Conference semis & finals | National attention, travel and corporate buyers, stakes compound. | Value climbs with every win. A potential conference-clinching home game is the hottest ticket of the run. |
| NBA Finals | Global demand into the smallest supply in championship sports. | The peak of the basketball market. NBA Finals seller hub → |
The mistake that costs the most: pricing a package as one product. A Game 2 with the series tied and a potential Game 6 closeout are not the same asset, and they are days apart.
What we do with NBA postseason inventory
We confirm your club’s transfer path, price each game to its own moment in the series — not the package average — and list across every major marketplace plus our broker and private-buyer network. We reprice as the series score changes, because a 2-2 series is a different market than a 3-1. You keep ownership until each game sells. Commission is 15% on postseason games, nothing upfront, nothing owed if a game doesn’t sell, and payment goes out every Friday.
Frequently asked questions
When should I sell my NBA playoff tickets?
Earlier than most people do. Demand spikes when a series is announced and again as a potential closeout game approaches — but if your team gets eliminated, the remaining games in your package simply cease to exist. We list as soon as games are confirmed and reprice through the series rather than waiting for certainty that may never come.
What happens to playoff games that aren’t played?
Clubs refund or credit unplayed games at face value. Your risk on the package is limited — the real decision is only about the games that actually happen, and those trade well above face in any serious market.
My team is in the play-in. Are those tickets worth anything?
A great deal, and briefly. Play-in games are single-elimination home games with playoff stakes in an arena that seats a fraction of a stadium. Demand is intense and compressed. The catch is that the game may not happen at all depending on seeding — which is exactly why being set up in advance matters more here than anywhere else.
Can I sell individual games from my playoff package?
Yes — playoff tickets generally arrive as standard transferable mobile tickets and each game can be listed separately, subject to your club’s transfer rules. That matters, because a potential elimination game and a Game 2 are completely different markets.
What’s the commission?
15% on postseason games rather than our 20% standard rate. Nothing upfront, nothing owed on games that don’t sell, and you’re paid every Friday.
Team in the playoff race?
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