{"id":620239,"date":"2026-02-23T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620239\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:14","slug":"l-a-lakers-planning-steep-price-increase-for-tickets-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620239\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Lakers planning \u2018steep\u2019 price increase for tickets next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Lakers have a \u201csteep price hike planned for their tickets\u201d for the 2026-27 season, according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN.com. It is the \u201cfirst sign of new Lakers owner Mark Walter seeking a return on his investment\u201d after purchasing the franchise at a $10B valuation. Online basketball personality Rob Perez in a post on X noted that there will be \u201ca 14% increase on the cost of seats in his section and the team will tack on an additional 3% administrative fee if the invoice is not paid in full at the start.\u201d Another longtime Lakers season-ticket holder showed ESPN the price for his seats in the 300 level \u201cjump from $6,192 in 2025-26 to $9,035 for 2026-27; the price in 2024-25 was $5,494.\u201d McMenamin noted that is a 45.9% hike going into next season compared with a 12.7% hike in the last renewal cycle. The Lakers in a statement said, \u201cWe are adjusting season ticket pricing for next season. The updates reflect the current market landscape and demand.\u201d Through the first 26 home games this season, the Lakers have an average attendance of 18,877 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47999734\/lakers-plan-major-price-hikes-tickets-2026-27-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47999734\/lakers-plan-major-price-hikes-tickets-2026-27-season\">ESPN.com, 2\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers have a \u201csteep price hike planned for their tickets\u201d for the 2026-27 season, according to Dave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,2206,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,21891],"class_list":["post-620239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-fan-experience","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-nba","tag-ticketing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620239","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=620239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}