The formality of Kobe Bryant announcing that this http://www.officialbullsonlineshop.com/Authentic-Doug-Mcdermott-Jersey season will indeed be his last sent ticket prices skyrocketing on Sunday night.The announcement, published in the form of a poem on The Players Tribune, injected millions of dollars into the resale ticket market across the country."This is definitely bigger than a guy like [Derek] Jeter and it's bigger than [Michael] Jordan in the sense that Jordan was always so wishy-washy no one ever knew if it would really be the end," said Patrick Ryan, co-owner of Houston-based ticket brokerage, The Ticket Experience.The cheapest ticket to Tuesday night's game in Philadelphia between the Los Angeles Lakers and the 76ers, who will have no more than three wins in 34 tries between them, tripled to $60 in minutes. Bryant was born in Philadelphia, lived for several years in Italy and returned to Pennsylvania, where he played his high school ball.Ryan's company took the inventory it had Authentic Mike Dunleavy Jersey been selling of all Lakers road games to wait for the market to settle. But those who kept tickets on sale in the hours after the announcement saw a brisk rise in interest and transactions."I had it priced as my second-highest game of the year after Golden State," said Mark Klang of Amazing Tickets in Cleveland, which sells Cavs tickets. "But things were really slow."Then the announcement came and, all of the sudden, Klang started getting calls about the Feb. 10 game against the Lakers."I think I've sold almost as many seats to this game as I sold since the day the schedule first came out," Klang said.Klang said he didn't raise prices, but said John Paxson Womens Jersey that with the Lakers at 2-13, he was about the lower them.Ryan said that some brokers started to push up their prices earlier in the month when Kobe Bryant's wife Vanessa showed up to Madison Square Garden to see him play against the Knicks. Resale prices have already jumped 25 to 30 percent from that mark and Ryan said that, in some markets, it will warrant another uptick of 50 to 100 percent."He put on a show in a lot of these cities and his saying this is his last allows teams and fans to say goodbye," Ryan said.For tickets that are not already sold, some brokers expect teams to include the game against the Lakers to help sell five- to 10-game ticket packages, which will allow the teams themselves to cash in off the demand.In the two hours after his announcement, the http://www.officialbullsonlineshop.com/Authentic-Taj-Gibson-Jersey cheapest ticket to what would be his final game -- April 13 at home in the Staples Center versus the Utah Jazz -- went from $125 to $400.
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