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Ticket Prices for Kobe’s Final Game Hit $5,700

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Ticket Prices for Kobe’s Final Game Hit $5,700

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Whether or not Kobe Bryant is among the top five players in NBA history, he is certainly in the highest tier. The price for tickets for his farewell, when the Utah Jazz face the LA Lakers on April 16, indicate that a number of people won’t miss the game, largely because of his longevity and lifetime statistics.

The most expensive seats (Section 110, Row A) in Staples Center for this game are priced at $5,741. They are close to courtside. The average ticket price is $2,124.08. Based on information from TiqIQ, it is the most expensive regular season game it has ever tracked.

Bryant logged 1,345 games played, the most among major players in the history of the NBA, short of only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who logged 1,560.

Bryant has scored 33,583 points over 20 seasons. By contrast, Michael Jordan scored 32,292 in 15 seasons. Kareem scored 38,387 over 20 seasons. By those measurements, several players rank ahead of Kobe in raw stats.
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Bryant’s points per game averaged 24.97 over his career, which ranks him 12th. Jordan averaged 30.12, the best of all time. Wilt Chamberlain averaged 30.07, in second place.

If Bryant can lay claim to anything, it is two decades of excellence, near the top of the game for his career, but just shy of the very best.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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