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.
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.
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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