Golden State Warriors’ season-ticket priority wait list exceeds Oracle Arena capacity

THE Golden State Warriors are so popular that the team’s non-refundable season-ticket waiting list exceeds the amount of seats in Oracle Arena

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PERHAPS no metric demonstrates the Golden State Warriors’ rockstar popularity right now than this: There are more people on the team’s non-refundable season-ticket waiting list (over 20,000 members) than there are seats in Oracle Arena, according to Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports:

Warriors' season ticket priority wait list, which costs $100 non-refund to join, nows exceeds over 20K members.That's more seats than Oracle

— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) January 12, 2016

That’s utterly insane, but also totally makes sense.

The Warriors are the greatest show in basketball right now. But that sentiment almost does them a disservice. It’s more than that. The Dubs are quite possibly the most entertaining team since Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls teams in the late 90s, which is saying something considering we’ve seen the Shaq-Kobe Lakers, Seven Seconds Or Less Suns and LeBron James Heat over that span.

And the Bay Area fans are taking notice. Season-ticket renewal rates have been at at least 92 percent over the past four seasons, reaching an all-time high of 98 percent this season, according to the team.

The idea that more people want to see the Warriors than can isn’t that crazy. That makes sense. But the fact that all of those people are willing to pay a non-refundable deposit of $100 just to have a chance at seeing Curry & Co is what’s pretty shocking.

Of course, Curry has shown he alone is worth the price of admission, and with a 36-game win streak at Oracle, the Warriors have, too.

This story originally appeared on FOX Sports US

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