Bo Hamburger
Years ago
Pretty simple really: person who guesses closest to the final score and official crowd figure wins killer prize of Basketball Intelligym pack personally signed by Ebi Ere life-long admiration of fellow contributors.
Melbourne 95, Sydney 91 - crowd 5724.
Ingles13
Years ago
How much does the kings hoem ground hold?
My guess Melbourne 89 - 83 Sydney
crowd: 7,122
Hoop Addict
Years ago
About 10,500 apparently.
Sydney 104 - Melbourne 93. Crowd: 7585.
Isaac
Years ago
6,500 with the curtains closed. More with them open.
I'm guessing 7,600 (revised guess) 9,400.
A good source has said the curtains are back and they've sold 7500.
Kent Brockman
Years ago
9464 fans and sadly the Kings by 12 101- 89
Nick
Years ago
I've been to the Kingdome, it huge and it's a horseshoe shape (and very purple!)
Crowd: 8,300 (lots of melbourne fans will fly up there).
Tigers by 6, 96-90
(this game should be good for the Kings, they could really do with a massive crowd)
Rat10
Years ago
Tigers over the Kings 94 - 90 to send off Dmac in style.
Crowd 8891
Its definately going to be good for basketball either way.
Statman
Years ago
Crowd - 9669
With Draper Kings 106 - 90
Without Draper Tigs 99 - 87
EC
Years ago
The 3rd game in Sydney had a crowd of 6009. You would think that this one being the definite decider would have to attract many more. I would say a full house whatever that number may be. Sydney will win it by 4.
Keefy
Years ago
Be great to see a packed Kingdome tonight.
Going to be a very intense game. Will the crowd give it to Lampley after his antics in game 3 or will he and the Tigers have the last laugh and send DMac out in style.
Would like to see the Tigers get up in a close that goes to OT.
They're currently about 2,500 off a complete sell out (anything above 9,500 will 'look' like a sell out at a glance). I think that's about what they'll get too - not technically a sell out, but it will look/feel like one. Few hundred short in reality.
Sturty6ers
Years ago
I'm going with Kings by 8. 106-98.
Crowd to be about 9215 9777.
Bo Hamburger
Years ago
If Isaac's not man enough to put a proposed scoreline in, I'm not man enough to stick to my original crowd estimate of 5724. ;)
Revision: 9117.
BTW: any guesses as to who's US Vogue's new coverboy?
(He's only the third man to ever appear on the cover)
Hoop Addict
Years ago
Yeah, it'll definitely be higher than the 7585 I tipped too. High 9000's I'd suggest.
Hope it's a good game. Still think Sydney will get it.
LC
Years ago
My head says Kings by 5, 102-97, but my heart says Tigers by 1 in 2OT, 114-113.
Crowd of 9323
If you've tipped a crowd of less than 9500, you're already wrong.
Great news for the NBL. Gives the blanket doubters something to think about.
Spinner
Years ago
Crowd - Full House (what ever that is)
Score - Tigers 107 Kings 101
Boy Gorg pops a vein in his scalp while pacing the side line.
Worthington and Anstey will get picked on by the refs and will have a crying comp at half time.
FTA channel sees the potential and signs NBL for a contract as a sit-com for next season
Spinner
Years ago
You are still picking the Tigers, but why the new score line Ingles13?
DB5
Years ago
1 hour 52 minutes ago.
Tonight's title-deciding fifth game of the National Basketball League Grand Final series between the Sydney Kings and Melbourne Tigers appears headed for a rare sellout at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
The NBL reports that over 8,000 tickets have already been sold, despite only going on sale yesterday morning after the Kings fought back to level the series at 2-all.
It is already guaranteed to be the largest at an NBL this season, with the previous largest being the 7,402 people who attended a South Dragons home game at Vodafone Arena in Round 13.
The Kings' biggest attendance at a grand final home game in recent years was the 9,609 people who saw the Kings clinch the title against cross-town rivals the West Sydney Razorbacks in Game 5 of the 2004 championship series.
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he biggest crowd ever recorded at a Sydney Kings game at Sydney Entertainment Centre was 10,610 against the Adelaide 36ers in September 1996.
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/03/14/KIngs_and_Tigers_expected_to_sell_out
It won't break the record - the Kings don't put anywhere near as many seats on the floor as they used to/less corporate boxes as well. I think realisticaly 9,500-10,000 max. Probably something right in the middle of that range.
Yep - few scattered individual seats still available around the arena + about 15-20 left in the very back row behind the ring. That should make it very close to, if not above, 10,000.
Ingles13
Years ago
Spinner - Had a little think about it, and considered it will be more defensive orientated so hence the lower score. The tigs and kings both know each others plays n stuff so it will be a lower scoring game, unless it goes to OT.
Ebi Ere
Years ago
HAHA Bo Hamburger your the idiot. I am not the idiot. You predicted a crowd of 5 k. HAHAH Try doubling that bro, coz 5k is way off. Crowd is like 10,000 BO.
LOL.
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