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Saturday night’s game in San Antonio between the Spurs & Warriors was supposed to be one of the marquee games of the entire season. ABC decided to make the game it’s prime time game of the week for Saturday night but they can pretty much bet on having terrible ratings after it was announced that most of the best players on both teams won’t be playing. As you might expect, fans who paid extremely high resale prices to get into the arena are very angry after dishing out lots of money to basically watch the reserves from both teams.
It was already being talked about yesterday that Kawhi Leonard would miss the game for concussion protocol and Tony Parked was questionable. Then Steve Kerr announced that he was going to rest all of his main players, so what became a game full of all-star caliber players on both teams has turned into a dismal, disappointing game and the event hasn’t even started yet.
Kerr on resting Curry, Klay, Dray, & Iguodala tomorrow night against Spurs. pic.twitter.com/rktbntdwqD
— CSN Warriors News (@CSNWarriors) March 11, 2017
Reactions about how the game is going to wind up being were all over twitter.
@NBA are you guys considering refunding money for tickets sold to tonight's spurs warriors game?
— Lord petty the 4th (@dakiddpryme) March 11, 2017
Lol…this hyped up Spurs/Warriors showdown…its basically a d league event now. I would want my tickets refunded
— Ⓜatt Chastain (@packetB0y) March 11, 2017
@JeffGSpursZone Those who brought tickets to the #Spurs & #Warriors game felt like this after hearing everyone is sitting out this game. pic.twitter.com/TIQPHemC9C
— SBSBSA (@JoeGsbsbsa) March 11, 2017
So @warriors and @spurs play tonight but Curry, Thompson, Green, Kawhi, and LA aren't playing? Tickets better be like $2 for lower level.
— Thomas Fisk (@2FastFisk) March 11, 2017
Unfortunately for everyone involved, the league isn’t going to do anything about it because they really can’t. To make things worse, the resale prices for the game were the fourth highest for any Spurs game in the past decade, so you know fans who bought tickets really spent serious money to a game they probably don’t even want to go to anymore.
Written by @IamJoeSports