Heat to open nightclub in arena

[Big Bid'Ness]

Fromrobasketballtalk

Miami fans arrive late, are there to be seen, and are on their iPhones the entire game planning where to go after — the basketball is an afterthought. If it’s a thought at all.

Well, that’s the stereotype. It’s not true all the way around the block — check out the fans in the “cheap” 400-level seats, up above the luxury boxes, and tell me those fans aren’t there for the game. Those fans are there to scream. But stereotypes exist for a reason and the Miami Heat are about to cater to them.

A Hyde Nightclub is opening in AmericanAirlines Arena on Heat game nights next season, reports Bloomberg on Businessweek.com. If you just had to ask what Hyde nightclub is, you can assume you will never get past the velvet rope.

Sam Nazarian, the Los Angeles restaurant and hotel owner, plans to open a Hyde nightclub at the Miami Heat’s AmericanAirlines Arena as sports venues expand their entertainment offerings….

The club will feature multiple bars, lounge areas, flat-screen televisions and a private dining room.

This isn’t the first Hyde club in an arena — the Lakers already have one at Staples Center. Yes, you should have guessed that.

The natural instinct here is to rip the Heat and their fans, but really this is just smart business. There are a lot of very rich people in Miami who want to pay a lot to come to Heat games and the team would be stupid not to offer amenities and take that money. The real fans, the people wondering why the Heat don’t run more LeBron James/Dwyane Wade pick-and-rolls in the fourth quarter, will still come or watch on television. They aren’t going anywhere. So if you can soak some guy for a bottle of Crystal in a club and put that in your bottom line, go for it.

 

[MR.ballin]

Pretty dope.

 

[RipCity32]

I can see this becoming a standard in most arenas now. Solid idea really.

 

[Elite]

I can see this becoming a standard in most arenas now. Solid idea really.

I couldn't see most arenas doing it, cities with big night lifes yeah, but not teams like the Bucks or something

 

[RipCity32]

Guess you are right there. lol

 

[Giantmetfan07]

i don't get why people pay to go to a game, and then sit in a restaurant at the game.

and i know a lot of people will go to these restaurants or clubs or w/e before the game, but there's also a lot that just chill during the game. Like, people who go to Citi Field just hang out at McFadden's at the ballpark during the games. Like, you can do that at any bar in the city and pay less.