The Milwaukee Bucks are telling you “the ball is in your court,” literally.
Well, as long as you have some disposable income. In an effort to scale up the relationship between the city of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Bucks, the team is offering an exclusive, never-been-done-before opportunity.
The NBA franchise will place the names of all “MVP” season ticket holders on record as of Oct. 18, 2013 on the newly remodeled and redesigned physical playing surface for the team’s home opener on Nov. 2.
Full season plans are available to see the ’13 Bucks for less than 13 bucks. (Oh, I get it! Ha. It works on so many levels!) Over 5,000 season ticket locations are still available for $13 or less for the 2013-14 season.
Thousands of these names will be included within the center line of the new playing surface for the team’s home opener on Nov. 2. These ticket buyers will be invited onto the court following the home opener to see their names and take photos. It’s all part of an effort to get the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin more engaged and passionate about the Milwaukee Bucks.
Currently, it’s a Green Bay Packers city and state first.
And second and third as well!
Of course, America’s Dairyland does care a lot about their Wisconsin Badgers– they do fill up that 80,000+ capacity football stadium on Saturdays. And the Milwaukee Brewers do draw fans to tailgate outside Miller Park. The baseball inside the stadium may be horrible; and Wisconsinites may not be that passionate about baseball, but you can’t beat the summer grill out party that is the Miller Park parking lot tailgate. The Milwaukee Bucks are trying to ignite similar passion. Right now the NBA team doesn’t inspire all that much excitement in Brew City. Like I said the Packers are EVERYTHING!
And the Milwaukee Bucks need to change that big time; and very quickly if they want to get that new arena owner Herb Kohl is clamoring for. The former Senator will put in some of his own money, but he’s expecting the taxpayers to pay up as well. Given the apathy the community currently possesses for the Milwaukee Bucks, it’s probably not going to happen.
And asking to replace the just 25 years old Bradley Center is like asking Chicago to build a new stadium for the White Sox. The Cell is only 22 years old. Yes, absurd in both cases.
Paul M. Banks is the owner of The Sports Bank.net, an affiliate of Fox Sports. He’s also an analyst for multiple news talk radio stations across the world, with regular weekly segments on NBC, CBS and Fox Sports Radio. Follow him on Twitter (@paulmbanks) , Facebook and RSS feed