NBA All-Star Rookie Challenge Tickets in Phoenix

By: Spencinator    Category: Sports, US Airways Center Tickets

I have never heard of the NBA All-Star Rookie Challenge until now. The event is happening soon so come out to the US Airway Center for the game here in Phoenix. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Rookie Challenge is a competition held during the NBA All-Star Weekend on the day prior to the regular All-Star game. From 1994 until 1998, the event was called the “Rookie Game,” and composed entirely of first-year players. Since the year 2000, the game has featured a team of standout first-year players against a team of the leading players who are in their second season of NBA experience. The format change was largely due to the cancellation of the event, with the rest of All-Star Weekend, in 1999 due to the lockout that season. In past years the NBA experimented with several other formats. This included an Eastern Conference rookies versus Western Conference rookies format, and arbitrarily assigning rookies to teams. Unlike regular NBA games, the game is divided into two twenty-minute halves, similar to college basketball. Like the 1997-2002 NBA All Star Games, players are allowed to wear their respective team uniforms: the sophomores wear their respective home jerseys and the rookies wear their respective away jerseys. The event is currently sponsored by T-Mobile. In the most recent game, the sophomore team won by a score of 136-109 and Daniel Gibson of the Cleveland Cavaliers put on a show. He had a game-record 11 three pointers and 33 points to take home MVP honors.

If you can’t find the seats you want to this event through the box office here are your best after market ticket vendor options:

1. AIW Tickets always has a great inventory and usually has the cheapest prices too.

2. Stubhub is an excellent place to shop online as well. They’ll even let you sell your tickets there.

3. TicketsNow is also a solid after market ticket vendor and usually has access the hard to find tickets

4. If those aren’t cutting it for you try a couple of these ticket vendors as well:

Good luck with your hunt.

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