Exclusive | NBA gave away courtside seats to beef up Cup final crowd

LAS VEGAS — The NBA Cup’s tenure in Sin City has not been the boon the league hoped it would be.

The league has already decided to have next year’s semifinals be played at home arenas, leaving just the final for a neutral site. And ESPN reported on Tuesday that the league has been underwhelmed with the enthusiasm for the games in Las Vegas, and it is considering moving away from Sin City.

Attendance at the semifinals and final at T-Mobile Arena was rough, with empty seats littered around the arena.

A plethora of fans got free tickets as “seat fillers” through a popular ticketing website called 1iota.com for the semis and final, The Post has learned. And those seats weren’t way up in the nosebleeds — they were courtside.

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