Not only were there no empty seats, but additional seats were often added. Back in the day at the seating-deficient Memorial Coliseum Glass Palace, the Trail Blazers' ticket office almost resorted to selling standing tickets.
Even after the home arena was changed to the Rose Garden, which can accommodate more than 20,000 people, it remained packed every time, without a single vacant seat. Season tickets were especially sought after and always sold out quickly.
On the Rose Garden's season ticket waiting list, there are 31,000 people waiting to fill in cancellations—this list at the United Center numbers 23,000 people.
A sea of reporters—from all over the world, from China, Germany, France, Spain—were gathered and spread throughout every corner of the arena, not just at the dedicated media and broadcast seats by the sidelines, but also in parking lots, player tunnels, and locker room entrances, everywhere with their presence.
