latimes.com - 9/17/2008
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The Lakers on Tuesday unveiled a ticket premium that will add as much as $55 to the cost of an admission to seven home games during the 2008-09 season against such top-flight competitors as the Celtics, Cavaliers and Mavericks. The premium to be levied on individual Lakers tickets will range ...
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Forum Blue And Gold —
... • If you haven’t seen this, the Lakers are now going to charging higher ticket prices for “premium” games. As a guy who used to have a part of season tickets (friends and I went in together, before we had to put that money toward kids), I saw this coming. Other teams and other sports were doing it, and in a revenue-mad world it was just a matter of time. I know this policy bothers some who see it as another thing keeping the “real fans” out of Staples Center. Personally, it doesn’t bother me as long as there are discounts for having to watch Memphis or other bottom dweller teams ...
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Arsenalist —
... The Lakers are one of the first teams to start differentiating their regular season games by charging more for “premium games”. I don’t have a problem with this at all as long as they reduce the prices for the “shit games”, you know the ones where you see the Bobcats on a rainy Wednesday night to a tune of 7,000 people. That would even things out. ...
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