MICHAEL JORDAN'S LAST GAME TICKETS
(updated 12-27-11)

We had a family gathering at the Comcast First Union Center in Philadelphia for the Wizards-Sixers game of April 16th, 2003, Michael Jordan's last game. We had a bunch of tickets in the Comcast suite and a bunch more in the Comcast Sportsnet club box. Comcast is the owner of the Sixers and the First Union Center, and Sportsnet is a cable sports station owned by Comcast. I guess you'd have to say that these tickets were, therefore, in the "owner's cable station's box"
I came away with 3 tickets from the Sportsnet Club Box. The tickets were scanned, not ripped, so there are whole tickets.
Sixer's tickets come in two styles, one of which is very ordinary, white in color, with the game info. printed on them. These are the regular game tickets, sold to the public at Ticketron, and at the ticket windows, and I'd guess there are about 13-14,000 of them for each game.
The other style tickets are for season ticket holders and also for the suites and boxes and are brightly colored with a picture of a Sixer's player on them, driving to the basket ( picturing Eric Snow, uniform # 20. Eric Snow, I believe, is the Sixer's captain). The tickets measure about 7&1/2 inches long by 2&1/2 inches wide. The have all the game info. printed on them. There are likely up to about 5,000 of these style tickets for each game for the season ticket holders with regular seats around the First Union Center.
The club box tickets, however, are much more rare, and show the suite or club box numbers printed on them. I would imagine there are maybe about 500-600 tickets like this to the club boxes. The Sportsnet club box has only about 15-20 seats. So the tickets I have are rare indeed, and should be a prized collectable for basketball fans and especially for Michael Jordan collectors, simply because it was Jordan's last game as a player.
I really don't have much clue as to what these are worth, but full tickets from Jordan's last game from the owner's station's club box should be a pretty cool collectable. I did see on Ebay, a few days after the game, one of the season tickets (regular seat tickets) go on auction, and it ended with about 25 bids at $90, although presumably, the suite and club box tickets are better. Nevertheless, this was right after the game, and you know the ebay feeding frenzy right after an event, so I believe these are probably not worth that much now. They rarely come up for auction at this point, so I really don't know. I would, however, think that longer term, they may well start to increase in value again.
I also have 3 "76er's Courtside Club Passes", from the game (the "Lexus Club at Courtside") which measure about 5 inches by 2 inches. They have a color picture of the club and the 76er's logo on them. Presumably there aren't very many of these around from this game. The only problem is that the these club passes don't have the actual date of the game printed on them., presumably since Comcast executives handed them out all during the season, for each game. Each pass has a place where one of the 76er's executives signed and dated them 4/16/03, noting they came from the "76er's account". The Comcast exec. who signed them was a guy named "Dave Cosky", who I think is the vice president for the First Union Center (Now the Wachovia Center), or for the 76er's. No clue what these would be worth, although likely way less than the actual game tickets, just because the date is written in, rather than printed on the passes. Just how many of these passes were given out for the April 16th game is unknown. These passes are also full/unused.
I'd be willing to trade one of the club box tickets, (and I'd throw in one of the club passes), in exchange for baseball cards. I'd be open to offers/discussion on trading these tickets. If I have to put a trade value on them, I'd suggest $60.00 for one ticket plus one club pass. or I'd sell the pair for $30.00
Thanks the long read!

Jack Posted on 9:57 AM