{"id":571160,"date":"2026-01-30T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571160\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:46:13","slug":"l-a-clippers-owner-steve-ballmer-intuit-dome-look-to-lure-grammys-from-crypto-com-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571160\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, Intuit Dome look to lure Grammys from Crypto.com Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">AEG\u2019s contract to host the Grammys at downtown L.A.\u2019s Crypto.com Arena is up after this year\u2019s show, and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is \u201cputting together a bid to lure music\u2019s biggest night across town\u201d to the Intuit Dome, according to Matthew Belloni of PUCK. Part of Ballmer\u2019s sales pitch to Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. will be \u201cIntuit\u2019s fan-first design, with its steep vertical seating and loud acoustics.\u201d But Intuit only has \u201cabout 100 luxury suites,\u201d which could be a problem because roughly half of the $12M the Grammys generate each year from the current AEG deal comes from \u201cleasing Crypto.com\u2019s 172 suites for the night and splitting the proceeds with AEG.\u201d The other $6M \u201ccomes from tickets\u201d &#8212; the Grammys manage the sale of \u201croughly 16,000 seats for the event and keep 100 percent of the revenue.\u201d Mason \u201cis supportive of an Intuit bid, which would likely apply competitive pressure on AEG\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/recording-academys-finacial-crisis-behind-grammy-shake-up\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/recording-academys-finacial-crisis-behind-grammy-shake-up\/ \">PUCK, 1\/29<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AEG\u2019s contract to host the Grammys at downtown L.A.\u2019s Crypto.com Arena is up after this year\u2019s show, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,74,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-571160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115985303877714516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}