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11 out of 30 NBA teams had 100% home game attendance last season. 18 teams were above 95%. There's not that much margin for improvement there.

http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2019/sort/homePct

Edit: I can't find the numbers for courtside attendance, but it's possible that ticket income for the teams at the bottom of that list is either lower or higher than the overall % suggests, depending on how in-demand the highest priced tickets are.

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Maybe but there's also a lot of ink about the drop in attendance in MLB games since the stopped looking the other way on steroids, maybe there are too many games to be able to be entertaining without drugs. Maybe NBA is on there way there, a third of the teams home games sold out seems like lots of room for improvement to me, I guess it's perspective.

Edit: Agree it's probably TV driving it. But just my perspective as Basketball fan, I would rather see 50 or 60 really great competitive games played by rested healthy and happy players than 80 games by tired players.

Oh yes, absolutely. My answer seems dismissive because I mostly follow the NBA, but in fact the relationship between the number of games, ticket prices, and factors affecting attendance is a fascinating topic.

Oh cool, I am also an NBA fan, I also think they are one of the better player leagues. If any league can work on this it is the NBA.