I just watch the Hornets gane in N.O. and saw tons of empty seats. In fact, the upper deck of the N.O. Arena was blacked out so you couldn't see anything during the game. However, on NBATV they showed some highlights and at one point in the first quarter there was a short glimpse of the mostly empty upper deck. Out of curosity I went on NBA.com and saw they reported a packed house of 18,202. How can that be when there were obviously thousands of empty seats and there were still tickets availble for the game? The arena only seats 18,000 and with tickets still available at game time how can there be 202 more people show up then the place can hold.