Basketball tickets are so expensive that it's embarrassing to tell anybody what it costs to go out to dinner and then to the game. The government's inflation index is woefully inadequate. Like most things from the government, you have to suspect incompetence. While it's true foreign produced goods have stayed cheap, the expansive flows of new money and credit have caused asset prices to explode. Stocks are one example.
Real estate is another.
Home prices have doubled in a decade. Commercial property has appreciated mightily, dragging rents along with it. Apartment rents are steadily pushing upward. The inflation index should also measure asset inflation. Inflation is a term we use to describe rising prices, but also an increase in the money supply.