The Golden State Warriors have their first play-in game Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Clippers, and there’s a very good chance that you, the Dubs fan for life, would be quietly relieved if they got crushed. And that’s not merely because the Warriors have had a miserable season, punctuated by Jonathan Kuminga getting shipped to Atlanta. It’s because seeing them play in person would leave you penniless. 

I just checked prices for Warriors home playoff tickets, should they advance to the big-boy tournament. The cheapest seats are going for $270 a pop on Ticketbastard, and that’s if you want to watch the game from the Chase Center lighting rigs. If you’d like to sit on the lower level, with a nice view of center court, that’ll run you over $3,500. That’s a down payment on a car just to watch your team get annihilated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round. By yourself. 

The worst part is that these prices are a relative bargain compared with higher-profile events happening across the country. Individual tickets for last week’s Masters were above $20,000 at one point. This was a regular-ass ticket to the Masters, mind you. You didn’t even get a free pimento cheese sandwich to go with. Even the now deceased Hootie Johnson would be appalled. 

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