Some Thunder season-ticket holders to experience their first price increase

Some Oklahoma City Thunder season-ticket holders are in for their first price hike since the team relocated from Seattle in 2008, according to email renewal notices received Friday.

The good news: It looks like playoff ticket prices are holding steady.

A regular-season lower-level seat in Section 118 that season-ticket holders pay $51 per game for this season will be $56 next season, according to the notice. However, front-row seats in upper deck section 326 remain $31 per game, the same price season-ticket holders paid for the Thunder’s first season in 2008-09.

As for playoff prices, that seat in Section 118 for a prospective first-round playoff series will cost $56 per game, the same as last season’s first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers. That section 326 seat will remain $36.

The Oklahoman’s John Rohde will be reporting on the Thunder’s season-ticket plan for 2011-12 today on NewsOK and in Saturday’s editions of The Oklahoman.