Is it possible to legitimately purchase a courtside ticket?

You can get them but it will cost you a lot of cash. You can get them through ticket brokers like razorgator.com or stubhub.com

 

ticket brokers or Ebay. I've only seen them pop up on Ebay a few times are they where 1K plus

 

I can tell you that the only way to get a seat in court side row A is to purchase a ticket or be given a ticket from someone who has seats there, and you will probably not find a scalper who has any, due to the fact that in order to have court side row A seats you have to purchase a court side suite.

However you can find seats in row B, C, D, and E. It will just take some time, and if the season tickets are not sold out on the floor call the day of the game and the ticket dept. may be able to help you out.

 

The best way to get FANTASTIC seats for less than market value is
at charity events. I know Richard Kinder (of kinder morgan) donates his
4 floor seats to a lot of events. I actually bid $700 for all four of them,
but thought they'd go much higher. They went for only $1100!!

 

i would think you'd be in the 200-300 price range if you bought directly from the rockets. if people can sit 5th row and see the lakers play for <$300, you should be able to sit there for around that price.

now as far as on the court, row a type seats.... those are hard to come by.

 

Ticket brokers, yep. that's how I've always done it.
Get lucky sometimes and only pay a little over face value, especially if it's right before the game and the opponent is not a top team.

 

the closest i've sat courtside was at summer league it was the first row behind the bench of the players...but that was 25 bucks at summer league.

closest i've been at a nba game was 7th row..those are my company tickets i got them for the upcoming rockets game here in la!

sitting courtside would be something i would love to do but courtside seats here in LA are ridiculous i remember seeing some last year for the lakers/rockets game going for about 4k or so.

oh and if you do sit courtside make sure you get lots of pics of the RPDS

 

Kind off topic but do we have our own "Jack Nicholas"? You know, the famous person that is always at the home games sitting court side?

 

i read somewhere once that if you're going to sit that close, don't sit behind the players. since they're tall it's hard to see over them. though i gotta think it'd be more fun to talk trash to them and miss part of the game rather than not being able to at all.

 

I sat first row courtside at two preseason games. Im going tonight too! My good ol' pal is up there at LiveNation, and they own 4 seats courtside, and 10 seats that they split with the buzz about 5 rows back, which are also great seats! From my understanding, just about every courtside seat is bought from the beginning of the season to season ticket holders. So yeah the best way would be through a scalper that owns a seat, or someone not using them.

Oh yeah, face value price on the tickets for from row courtside is $950.00

 

I have sat in the row right behind the opposing player's bench before. Trust me, it's not easy to talk trash to them when they are able to just turn around and kill you. I was probably the most quiet I have ever been at a game.

 

Are you talking about Jack Nicholson?

Jack Nicklaus was a golfer.

 

Does anyone know where the places are to meet scalpers for Rockets tix? Someone had mentioned a couple of places, but I don't remember.

 

If you mean actual courtside like where they put a chair on the court and you sit in it (Row A) then I think thats pure scalper eBay. Those are like season tickets only.

The behind the bench seats (Row B) are like 350 from the Rockets.

 

I sat courtside once. Right on the floor, in the first row, few seats away from the mayor of Houston. Best part was that we got it for free!

It was me and R0ckets03 and two others. It's a long story about some old geezers telling him to be quiet during a game and security taking their side and being rude to him. He started a thread over here about it, and some Rockets insider e-mailed him and promised him 4 free tickets to seats that'll be really good.

We get to the game and had to meet some Rockets rep (we didn't know where exactly we were sitting just yet), and she led us down and down, until we were on the first row on the floor, right across from the Rockets bench, sitting a few seats away from the mayor! . Needless to say, that was an unforgetable experience.

We were playing the TWolves by the way, and got to see KG playing against Yao!

 

I was at the Portland game last week and some old gizzard almost got me kicked out for being too loud......

 

i hate old white people. (aka the majority of the lower bowl)