Game 6, 7 tix on sale at 11 a.m.

Why do you continue to post this? People cannot get tickets online. I was online at 11 a.m. this morning, got in within a second of them going on sale to buy a single, and nothing was available.

Rather than publish verbatim press releases from the team, how about you do some real reporting and try and get them to tell you how many tickets will be available? What would be the harm in that?

Agree with Jose!

Total joke. I got in about a second past 11 a.m. as well and was told nothing was available. Why waste our time? If the team is only going to sell to people in person at the Garden then just be honest about it. I can deal with that and not be upset. When I go on-line and get in a few seconds after the time they go on sale and walk away with nothing, that leads to fustration.

Oh stop whining. Do you know how many people were online this morning trying to get tickets? It's not personal.

Stop crying and pay a scalper.

I agree with Jose. I tried the same thing and nothing. Something has to also be done about so many fans buying tickets and selling them over for a profit of over 400%. For example, alot of fans have been placing ads on craigslist for Balcony seats which go for about $175 per ticket for $750 + per ticket. This is very obscene. There should be some regulation to this as well as the team announcing how many tickets will be available.

MILLARKI!!!! I tried to get tix online and by phone...sold out in less than 4 minutes!!!

HOW MANY WERE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC??? HOLLYWOOD EAST HERE WE COME :(

could not agree more. perhaps TicketMaster could say "SOLD OUT" and save us all from false hope. What a joke.

agree with the previous poster. I got in as well at the strike of the clock 11 sharp. Nothing available. Any ticket, any price, zip nada. I was also trying to call but zip nada. Everthing was a busy signal.
I was hoping to get some tickets and travel from Amsterdam to Boston tomorrow.
Would also have been nice if they told us how limited tickets were and when they were sold out.

Lamar Odom wears purple panty-hose. Go Celtics!

And where do you expect the Globe/Boston.com to get this info? Oh that's right. They are supposed just "get them to tell how many tickets will be available". You really went out of your way to type in "Ticketmaster.com". WOW... you spent a whole couple seconds. Maybe the team should just give you tickets for all the trouble you went through huh? Would you like some cheese with that wine?

It's all a scam. How can tickets supposedly go on sale at Ticketmaster at 11am and already tickets can be found on Ace Tickets and Stub Hub at the same time for a gross markup? Why is it that only the elite can go to games and not the true fans? It's all so disgusting.

I agree with Jose, I don't know why I bother stopping my work to try to get tickets when in each of the past 3 rounds when getting in after a few seconds of the page becoming active there is nothing available. If that's really the case then all of the people waiting at the Garden are wasting their time too because theoretically they would never get to the front after the first person got their tickets. Last time tickets went on sale the page did not even start working until 8 minutes after the posted time.

I tryed to get tickets on the phone and stood at 2 ticketmaster box offices and only one guy of the two downtown boston locations was able to receieve tickets...

Sorry I'm not Justin Timberlake or Jimmy Fallon but just the die hard fan that works each day to get money of the expensive tickets.

the globe won't do this, but in terms of invastivative purposes, it would be really nice to know how many tickets were, indeed, held back for today's public sale. i'm guessing there were none; rather, the time slot was used to open ticketmaster's system for the team to possibly release more tickets between now and the game(s).

would be really nice for the globe to at least inquire, especially given that it's the nba finals and i'm looking at another message board where sixty people all tried at 11am, and not a single person got through.

3000 tickets went on sale at 11am. Ace Ticket secured 2900 of them in a deal with Ticketmaster. Of the remaining 100 tickets, 80 of them went to the "Club Green Elite" members and 20 were available to the general public.

I'm not "elite", and I've been to Game 1 of the Finals and a couple other playoff games. It's similar to how the C's did it this year: hard work and dedication. You have to scour Craigslist and all the other sites until you find something you can afford. That and being smart enough to save some money! Either that, or try the scalpers. If you want to go bad enough, you'll find a way! So like TH, Ron & BlogBunny said: STOP WHINING! (LIKE KOBE) Lamar Odom wears purple panty-hose. Go Green!!!!!

Why so much whining people? I just got two ticket to game six for $30 each by standing in line and being fortunate to get through in the lottery. If you wanted tickets so badly you could have gotten them.

I agree with most of the comments above... I signed up for the lottery and they didn't even respond saying I wasn't picked to be able to purchase tickets. I was online before the tickets were even supposed to be on sale and constantly refreshing the site so the moment they were released I could try to buy some. Didn't work. I tried to call as well. They were sold out already. I checked AceTickets and StubHub at 11:05 and was quite upsted to find out that they already had over 1000 tickets on sale for at least $650 a piece.

I'm glad I bought my Finals tickets back in April. It does pay off to be a season ticket holder!

I am a season ticket holder and that is the only way I am going to these games. I had to put up $4k for 2 season tickets in the balcony. This then gives me the right to buy playoff tickets are face value.

Die Hard fans camp out? Don't you mean scalpers with no real job?

did the people on this board not know that they could have bought season tickets for a as little as $10 per seat at any point during the past 10 seasons? Or did the true fans just realize now that they need the right to get cheap tickets to game 7 of the NBA finals??

@ TH: The Globe/Boston.com is still a news-gathering organization, isn't it? They could -- gasp! -- ask the team rather than just publishing the press releases that the team feeds them.

And for the team to do absolutely nothing to try and stop the ridiculousness on StubHub and AceTicket is ridiculous. Real fans get shut out and those with limitless incomes and limited fandom get to go to the games that we've been attending all year.

Dennis, if you can afford to travel from Amsterdam to Boston for the game, you shouldn't have any trouble finding tickets on craigslist in your price range.

just sayin'.

T H!! I love your closing line! I use it all the time!!

Um... Ever hear of season tickets? That's where most of the tickets go, and people bought them at the beginning of the season.

My Gawd, I hope Donnie Wahlberg was able to get tickets online!

I ditched the online purchasing and went to a Ticketmaster outlet....they didn't even show any tickets being available at 11:00 so were there ever any tickets today?

It'll be far less painful for you bandwagon fans to watch the Celts lose from home.

I have tickets I am selling for ten million dollars!

It is supply and demand... It is very simple economics.

Got a row 3 balcony single at TM today. I'm a happy guy. Especially as someone who sat through the bad days.

I went and stood in the line for Game1 at the Garden. The line for the coupon was cutoff just before me. i was so damn unlucky. Disappointed by my first experience I did not even go for the game 6 tickets. I knew it would be a waste of time..

BTW.. I dint even try to get online.. I know thats fake.

It's all crap...I called and went online thru ticketmaster too at 11:00am sharp and nothing! If there is such a thing as karma...everyone trying to sell above face value, especially Ace, will end up losing money.

Maybe it's because the Celtics haven't been to the Finals in 20+ years but the racket that Stub Hub, ACE Ticket, and all corporations have been in on has been going on for years. I don't like it but I'm not exactly sure how to stop it. Seriously, if someone is willing to buy a ticket 1000% over price then there is going to be someone who will sell it. Unfortunately, it's the downside of capitalism. It sucks to be on the losing end.

This is why the MLB All-Game can't end in a tie. People complain that they pay $900 for a ticket and they want to see a team win. I say if you pay $900 for a ticket for a game that means nothing and demand that players go out on the field and risk injury just so you can have satisfaction that you are either a moron or selfish or both.

Do you really want to be an idiot who pays over-inflated ticket price? The Globe isn't to blame here, folks. It's the Celtics and Ticketmaster who are in collusion to make sure tickets go at the highest absurd price possible.

Joe B at #23 nails it. I'll be there tomorrow night. I sat through a lot of crappy games against Charlotte, Milwaukee and the Clippers over the years so I wouldn't have to worry about the bandwagon leaving without me.

Thanks for the brilliant analysis, Dave. Now back to work on the AIDS vaccine.

I was online, as I don't work downtown. Why did I even bother?

I logged on early, hitting Ticketmaster at exactly 11:00 AM, if not a split second before. Nada.

That's the one thing about the Celtics. They are the least fan friendly franchise out there, and I'm talking Red Sox, Bruins, and Patriots. At least the other franchises don't lie to their fans. You'd think a loser like ML Carr was still calling the shots.