The parent company of the Toronto Raptors has chartered a plane to fly employees down to Miami for Game 3 of the team’s playoff series against the Heat.
The chartered Air Canada flight had Raptors’ shirts placed on each seat for roughly 150 staff, posts on social media show.
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Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment spokesman Dave Haggith called the outing “a day trip to Miami for the game to cheer on the Raptors.”
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“MLSE has taken employees in years past when our teams have advanced to the second round as employee recognition,” he said in an email.
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A lottery system determined which lucky staffers got chosen, Haggith added.
The median ticket price for Saturday’s match along with any possible remaining Miami Heat home games was US$204, according to ticket seller Vivid Seats — which would put MLSE’s game-ticket budget in the ballpark of US$30,000, or nearly $40,000 Canadian.
Vivid, meanwhile, tallies the Raptors’ median ticket price at US$276 — the second highest for Round 2, after the Golden State Warriors.
Regular-season ticket prices for the red-hot Raptors were raised an average of six per cent for 2015-16, which one MLSE official told the Toronto Star was less than they could have given the 14-15 season sold out. Tickets went up 2.5 per cent that season.
Tipoff in the tied-up Raptors-Heat series is 5 p.m.
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