The Lonzo Ball era in Los Angeles will begin on Thursday night. The Los Angeles Lakers are nominally the home team during their season opener against the Clippers, and it’s a really intriguing game for a few reasons, chief among them is the debut of the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.
As we saw during the Summer League, people really want to watch Ball play basketball. Games were straight up selling out because Big Baller Brand’s one NBA player was taking the floor, and he usually delivered. In a city like Los Angeles that is desperate for some star power, having Ball is a big deal.
For Ball’s debut, there’s so much demand that large blocks of seats are being taken up in one fell swoop so people can come watch. Of course, that’s because everyone in Ball’s immediate family wants to come and watch this game, so he requested a bunch of seats.
Also from the All-Lonzo-All-The-Time department, word is he needed 23 tickets tonight. Immediate family only.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) October 19, 2017
That’s completely insane. We did a quick Google search to try and get a sense of how many seats that is at Staples Center, which led us to a website that maps out the entire stadium and lets us know how the maximum number of seats in any given section.
Ball requested 23 tickets, which would take up about a full row in a number of sections at the venue. And the craziest part is that this is just for his immediate family. We can assume that LaVar, Tina, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball will all be in attendance, and beyond that, there are still 19 more tickets up in the air. There’s enough evidence to say the Ball family is really tight, but this is still super impressive.
