Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after racist email

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8. "because the Hawks aren't very good"

This is USUALLY the reasoning behind low attendance for ANY team. You will always have your dedicated fans for certain teams but most folks tend to be "fair weather" fans - and moreso when looking at the cost of tickets.

Right here in Philly, for a total of ~3 years surrounding their World Series win in 2009, the Phillies had sold-out, standing room only attendance - http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/blogs/philthy-stuff/Phillies-Sellout-Streak-Ends-at-257-Consecutive-Games--165211486.html

Yet once they started fumbling and losing more and more, that was the end of that, and they are back to practically begging folks to come.

This has nothing to do with the "race" of the audience. If the team is consistently winning, the fans will come.

The problem is that you have cheap-ass owners who don't want to pay for "talent" (whether coaches or players), so you often end up with a mediocre team where no one really cares about them. This has been one of my pet peeves with Ed Snyder and later, Josh Harris with respect to the '76ers.