There’s been loads of discuss in regards to the development of the WNBA this season, and far of it has been attributed to a rookie class headlined by Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. However, it’s been a crew with out a high 2024 draft decide that simply made historical past for promoting out season tickets in consecutive years: the Las Vegas Aces.
The Aces introduced on Thursday they fully bought out their 2025 season ticket memberships, turning into the primary crew in WNBA historical past to take action in back-to-back seasons. It’s not the primary time that the Aces fanbase had made historical past; they turned the primary crew in league to promote out all of their common season house video games in a single season again in June.
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The Las Vegas Aces have bought out of season ticket memberships for the 2025 season, making them the primary crew in @WNBA historical past to promote out season ticket allotments in back-to-back seasons.
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— Las Vegas Aces (@LVAces) September 13, 2024
Las Vegas has an apparent benefit in relation to these kind of ticket sale data on condition that they play in a smaller enviornment than another WNBA groups. Michelob ULTRA Area can seat 12,000, whereas arenas that additionally home NBA groups — like Barclay’s Middle, Crypto.com, and Gainbridge Fieldhouse — can seat as much as 20,000, making sell-outs tougher.
Nonetheless, Las Vegas boasted the league’s third-best attendance this season — averaging 11,381 attendees per evening, under the Indiana Fever (17,009) and New York Liberty (12,646).
Together with the remainder of the league, season ticket costs will improve subsequent season in Las Vegas. The typical ticket worth will improve from $30.78 this yr to $43.95 for subsequent season. The largest soar will probably be for the costliest seats — courtside tickets will improve from $500 to $600 per sport, per the Las Vegas Overview Journal.
The crew introduced that 92% of season ticket holders for the 2024 season renewed their membership, with the remaining 8% being to people on the ready checklist.
The sell-out is reflective of an simple recognition growth throughout the WNBA, in addition to of the Ace’s distinctive success. Las Vegas has gained the earlier two WNBA championships, and the whereas the crew has struggled at factors this season, they nonetheless sit at fourth total within the standings, and have six Olympians on the roster. In addition they profit from the actual fact they’re headlined by A’ja Wilson, who has been essentially the most dominant participant within the league this season.
Wilson praised the league’s development in an interview with SB Nation final week.
“Persons are placing their cash the place their mouth is and investing in us,” Wilson stated. “I believe that’s the attractive factor about it. It’s simply the actual folks, the actual traders, the actual people who need to see us develop — they’re placing their cash the place their mouth is.”
