{"id":383485,"date":"2024-04-15T20:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=383485"},"modified":"2024-04-15T20:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:32:04","slug":"nba-breaks-all-time-records-for-total-attendance-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-breaks-all-time-records-for-total-attendance-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA breaks all-time records for total attendance and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA set all-time records for regular-season total attendance, average attendance, percentage of capacity and sellouts for the second season in a row.<\/p>\n

The total attendance of 22,536,341 in the 2023-24 regular season surpasses the previous record of 22,234,502 set last season. \u00a0The other records include 872 sellouts (up from the previous record 791 in 2022-23), 71% of games sold out (up from 63% in 2022-23) and an average attendance of 18,322 (up from 18,077 in 2022-23). \u00a0Additionally, NBA arenas were filled to an all-time-high 98% capacity.<\/p>\n

Ten teams sold out every home game: Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings.\u00a0 The record-setting season also saw fans from more than 150 countries and territories attend regular-season games.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the start of the inaugural Emirates NBA Cup \u2013 formerly known as the NBA In-Season Tournament \u2013 the NBA recorded its highest-ever average attendance for November (18,208).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Highest NBA Regular-Season Total Attendance<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 2023-24 22,536,341<\/li>\n
  2. 2022-23 22,234,502<\/li>\n
  3. 2017-18 22,124,559<\/li>\n
  4. 2016-17 21,997,412<\/li>\n
  5. 2015-16 21,972,129<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Highest NBA Regular-Season Average Attendance<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. 2023-24 18,322<\/li>\n
    2. 2022-23 18,077<\/li>\n
    3. 2017-18 17,987<\/li>\n
    4. 2016-17 17,884<\/li>\n
    5. 2015-16 17,864<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The 2024 SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament\u00a0will tip off on Tuesday, April 16 ahead of the 2024 NBA Playoffs presented by Google Pixel, which will begin on Saturday, April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The league set also maximums for average attendance, percentage of capacity and sellouts in 2023-24 regular season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-383485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383485"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=383485"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=383485"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=383485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}