Hollywood mania at the Staples Center
June 12th, 2008, 1:53 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Alex Kreitman
The Staples Center was jam packed with celebrities for Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night and I’m sure tonight’s Game 4 will be no different.
Jack Nicholson, Eddie Murphy, Fergie, Stephen Spielberg, Toby McGuire, Hillary Duff, the list goes on. To be honest, if I were an average Lakers fan, like I am an average Celtics fan, I’d be a little ticked off that all the celebrities get to go and I don’t. But I guess so goes professional sports.
No longer are these big-game events meant to take you son to, they’re expensive spectacles.
I just looked on StubHub.com and the cheapest ticket is $334 to sit up in the highest level behind one of the baskets, not exactly a great seat. If you want to sit in the lower level, or loge section, the cheapest ticket I could find was $1,028, also behind the basket.
If you want to sit where the celebs are sitting, most of the regulars anyway, like Nicholson, it’s going to cost you $19,143. But get it fast because it was the only ticket courtside available which probably means that Kobe Bryant gave Nicholson a heart attack in Game 3 and has to watch tonight’s game from his hospital bed.
A courtside seat for the next game in Boston, which is still starred with an “if necessary,” is $7,059 with a floor seat, basically the same, going for $10,000. These seats aren’t as expensive as the ones in L.A., but they’re still way too much for any average fan to afford.
So I guess will just have to watch guys like Leonardo DiCaprio and Curt Schilling take the good seats as we stay glued to our cheap TV sets. Good enough for me as long as the C’s win. But I guess it’s the same for all sporting events now.
