The wait list to get Los Angeles Lakers’ season tickets may be long but the prices are actually more affordable than you would imagine
One would think that getting Lakers’ season tickets would be easier now with Kobe Bryant officially deciding to hang them up for good, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as the wait list for tickets is still as crowded as ever.
Last season, prices for nosebleed seats to Kobe’s last game were an average of $800 — midlevel $2,000, Premier level $5,000, Loge Level $10,000 and Courtside/Suite $20,000 — so seeing the face value prices of season tickets for this year is pretty startling.
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For as low as $38 a game, which comes out to about around $1,600 on the year, you could watch Lakers’ games from the upper deck all year long. More shocking, however, is the relatively low price of courtside tickets, which are $315 a ticket, $13,000 a seat on the season.
In years past, from my understanding, the season ticket holder’s price was the same as what fans buying single game tickets would have to pay, but seeing how cheap courtside and lower level tickets are on this chart, that appears to have changed.
Were this to actually be the case, I’d gladly pay $315 to watch D’Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram and the young Lakers from five feet away. To put this in perspective, courtside seats for the Las Vegas Summer League was around $200-300 so it’s doubtful that this is the price you’d be able to pay.
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Regardless, nosebleeds and even seats in the 200 section shouldn’t be as expensive to get this year, but who knows? With the Los Angeles Clippers reportedly looking for venues for a new arena, STAPLES Center might increase the prices to make up for this loss.