The Oklahoma City Thunder has sold out its available season tickets in advance of the 2008-09 season and is starting a waiting list. In only five days, the Thunder sold approximately 13,000 season tickets at all price levels, including $10 upper level seats.
“This is a testament to Oklahoma’s commitment to our team. We are thrilled and extremely appreciative of our fans and corporate supporters,” said Thunder Chairman Clay Bennett. “This kind of support means so much to our players, coaches and staff. We are humbled and excited.”
With a 13,000 cap on season tickets, the team has canceled the remaining three days of its seat selection process. Team spokesman Dan Mahoney said, however, all fans who had randomly scheduled appointments scheduled but were unable to buy season tickets will automatically be put on a waiting list to be offered eight-game partial season ticket packages. “Buying those mini-packages will give them priority on the waiting list for full season tickets in future seasons if they become available,” Mahoney said. Information on those mini plans will be sent to the waiting list beginning the week of September 22.
Despite selling out season tickets, the Thunder is holding back more than 4,000 tickets for single game sales, group sales and the partial-season plans. “We did not want to sell out the Ford Center with season tickets. We want to be able to offer a wide variety of fans access to Thunder basketball games, so we will have single game tickets and group sales opportunities available for every game,” Mahoney said. Single game tickets for the first half of the season will go on sale in October.
