[Highlight] JJ Redick tears up postgame praising the Lakers and their home crowd. “The crowd was awesome tonight. Gratitude”
Tickets were $90 tonight which is cheap as hell for a Laker playoff game and the crowd was great.
They’ve already announced they’re raising season ticket prices by 25% or more for next season.
Yay!
mark walter has a net worth of over 11 billion dollars. fuck this greedy fuck. real fans are already priced out as is. crowd was finally alive today for once
piece of shit also invests into private prisons for ICE. fucking scumbag
All billionaires are evil. You guys just happen to have a super evil one.
All billionaires are bad. ABAB
You don’t get to that level without exploiting someone or something.
Nah, dehumanizing an entire group of people is wrong and by the way aren’t some athletes billionaires at this point? Who did they exploit?
Not that many are? Jordan, lebron, Ronaldo (maybe?)… And sure you could be a billionaire and keep your hands semi clean if you don’t really do the business. But some people along the way that lined your pockets def dit something questionable. Not saying every single billionaire is an unimaginable monster (some def are though) but all of them have and still do things that go against some moral somewhere. 100% ethical billionaires don’t exist… You don’t get to be a billionaire without billionaire decisions…
For one example, all those guys are partnered with Nike and derive lot of their wealth from it, and Nike uses child labour to make their shoes and clothing so even if they aren’t directly involved, their choice of Nike would invalidate any argument that their billion was made ethically.
Ronaldo is also not exactly the example to use if you’re trying to argue billionaires aren’t evil lmao
dehumanizing a group of people? do you know how much taxes and how much money you must hoard to reach over a billion dollars? weird behavior from you to immediately want to stick up for the poor victim billionaires
Most billionaires don’t have all that much cash lmfao
No but every one was happy when he bought his share because it means he’s also spending on the team like he does the dodgers!! Nevermind that owning sports teams has shown to be one of the best money investments for billionaires as their value has gone from millions to billions in only a few decades.
They also have one on their roster 😂
Did not know this. Wow.
Classic billionaire greed
Billionaires need MORE
It will take me 100 lifetimes to spend a billion but i need more.
It’s not gonna get cheaper but y’all might get a parade or two in the next decade if he can do what he did with the Dodgers.
Owners don’t care about the fans, they care about selling tickets. Unfortunately, enough people are still willing to pay the outrageous prices.
What’s the appropriate price for tickets?
That is harsh. Mark will turn around the Lakers and he built Cadillac in F1
Eh. At least he puts money into the team
“At least he’s still leaving us some crumbs”
If that’s how you take it sure. I just don’t expect billionaires to be some kind of moral leader. I understand gods the world works and I’m not going to keep getting offended that a billionaire isn’t a great guy.
And people are going to pretend like they really care but if you did you wouldn’t watch any Lakers games. Buy no jerseys, buy no tickets, and tune out the NBA. If you can so much then do something instead of pretending to care on Reddit
Saw lower level tickets for 368, they were 1k+ last game
2nd half atmosphere was awesome
Isn’t it crazy how much better crowds are when they aren’t priced out?
Shhh, Ticketmaster is watching
Ticketmaster does not set the ticket prices. The venues do. If you wanna get mad at them for something, then it should be the “service fee”
Source: work at Ticketmaster
Yes I know, it was a joke
A joke which relied on the idea that ticketmaster sets the prices
Oh no a joke at the expense of fucking Ticketmaster. What did they do to deserve this!?
Interesting - just because the series was basically over, the tickets plummeted?
90 for lakers playoffs with bron is wild
$90?!?’
As much as we should be excited for mark Walter’s ownership, this has been the big negative side.
They’ve jacked up prices for Dodgers tickets as well.
It’s such a bummer. We used to be able to get decent tickets for weekday day games for \(15; now those same seats are \)50.
Raising ticket prices for a team that got swept? Awfully bold of them!
Funny, when real fans can come it’s awesome
I would think tickets for Lebron’s possible final game would be more expensive.
Someone needs to pay the Dodgers payroll
yeah, his name is Ohtani. Dude pulled in something like 700 mil last year from brand deals while officially making 2 million and defer 68 mil until 2030 something.
They knew the crowd would turn on the team if they priced this game like they wanted to
They had tickets on StubHub before hand for $15 lol
It’s a shame it took them being down 3-0 before people who were actually excited to watch were able to show up.
The crowd actually sounded insane. Every time Lakers went up 5, you’d think they won the finals already. Props.
What happens when real fans can afford to go
Amen
People always love to make fun of how dead our crowds can be at times as a sort of “gotcha” to our fanbase but I’m glad everyone can see what’s really going on now
If real Lakers fans could actually go to the games and be in the lower levels we’d have crowds comparable to OKC
It reminds me of Houston’s issue too, where way too many corpo seats are in the lower bowl so they either don’t get used or you have the guy that doesn’t want to get too invested because his boss/client is sitting right there lol.
Los Angeles is like this for concerts as well, where because of the entertainment industry, so many tickets are given away as comps to entertain various execs and their friends and families that you end up with crowds made up of a bunch of people who aren’t really fans of what they’re seeing, they’re just there cause it’s free tickets and VIP treatment. It’s probably similar for Laker games where various agencies and entertainment entities have season tickets they give out to clients and people they’re trying to schmooze.
Yeah if prices were actually doable, Staples would sound like Dodgers Stadium every game
I was at the Kennard game winner in Orlando and it sounded like a Lakers home game. I was in line with everybody before the doors opened and all I saw was yellow
Reminds me of when we used to be at Oracle. Chase is so ass
I last minute decided to go last night. I love basketball and we all knew it could be LeBron’s last one for us, so no matter what happened, we had to go hard
Down 3-0 got prices back for the real fans
Way more competitive than whatever the hell that was after halftime in game 3
real fans
its the lakers, no such thing
Me when I only have one brain cell.
Even if people assume that Laker fans only jumped on the bandwagon cause they were good, that could have happened so long ago that those people are now decades long diehard fans of the team.
You don’t even have a flair
No flair, no care
A lot of people came out of the woodwork just to shit on every playoff team lol
no care? seems 174 of you are pretty butthurt xd
Sounded like real fans in there
There are so many die-hard Lakers fans. More than any other team. Yeah, they have the most fake fans, but they have the most real fans too.
JJ did an insane job this year, seems like he grew out of some of his immaturities from last season and the dude’s an absolute fiend
Hearing him just rattle off every player’s statistics, efficiencies, shot diet at different parts of the floor is awesome. Miss his pod but great coach
Guess I’m happy for him, but losing OM3 as part of my mornings before work hurt so much.
I’ll say they actually still do a solid job without JJ even tho I do miss him on there dearly and thinks he brings something you can’t replace
I’m just not a Tommy fan, sadly. Just like Duncan Robinson’s friend, neither of them bring the magic, and I think that magic is having played at the pro level. Same with their splinter podcasts. I don’t listen to bill Simmons or Lowe or anyone I think for similar reasons. Thank god Channing Frye is on the road tripping podcast because after they added Perkins it’d be just as bad as all the smoke or whatever the wizards guy does. They’re still borderlining on that SAS feeling sometimes and it gets too cringe to listen to. Also, the gambling shit gots me skipping half their podcasts at this point. Get your bag, but they’re definitely participating in corrupting everything about the thing they love for a buck. The millennial grift.
That’s true and I agree. One of the main reasons I’ve continued watching/listening is they often have nba players on like every other week it seems like. Just depending on where they’re traveling, time of the season, etc. I love hearing from players especially people you don’t get to hear from too much and in long form. It makes me love the league and appreciate the players more. Seems like every guy they have on is just a down to earth dude who is blessed and loves basketball. Just good vibes and basketball talk.
He had some weird decisions but this guy is such a basketball fanatic I’m not worried about him continuing to mature into a great coach. It’s just growing pains and lack of experience holding him back.
I was firmly not a fan of hiring a podcaster but I’m glad to be wrong and I truly think he can mastermind some winning game plans with Luka.
Can we stop the podcaster thing? He’s JJ Redick….do we really have to explain who JJ Redick is to basketball?
It’s impressive that JJ was able to get an actor from Sprite commercials, LeBron James, to play well this year.
Can’t believe they brought a real Fortnite character to life. Bronny’s dad is truly one of one
Former Duke basketball villain, NBA 3 point journeyman, podcaster, then head coach.
When he started, he was a head coach with more experience as a podcaster than coaching an NBA team. That’s just a factual statement and people were right to be concerned about his potential. Again, I’m glad I’m wrong. But we’ve seen plenty of former players not be able to make the leap to coaching.
Yeah and we got people who went straight from being a talking head on ESPN to coaching, yet no one calls them “tv analysts” in jest lol. I get the fun of it but people act like a podcast is this net negative thing when it really doesn’t mean anything. You could just say “role player from the league who never coached” but that doesn’t sound as insulting does it lmao. Who gives af if he had a podcast.
I’m sorry I didn’t know you were a podcaster.
JJ is an incredible coach man I don’t think most realize how difficult it is to make the roster he had work. Sure he has Luka and Lebron but that comes with very specific challenges that I think he delivered the best he could
I’m glad he’s our coach and not Dan Hurley. I really don’t think that would’ve worked.
He would have lost his mind coaching D’lo and Ayton lol
As if JJ didn’t lose his mind doing the same. Did you miss JJ slamming his chair down hard (at DLo’s play) or cursing on the sidelines or walking onto the court screaming at Ayton after a defensive flub
Hurley would never have been able to handle the Los Angeles media
He’s the definition of a manchild
this roster really had no business being 3rd in the West for as long as it did before the injuries, very strange year but JJ did a great job on his end
It was an incredibly top heavy roster… that still managed to be competitive and win games while missing significant time from its stars. That alone is commendable. Even Phil Jackson or Popovich aren’t doing shit with this roster
He did an incredible job all season, he is a great coach
He coached them to a first round exit when he had Luka and Lebron last year. You can stop making excuses for the dude because you guys are both from the suburbs.
He’s a podcaster, and will never coach any team past the second round.
Just scrolled through your comments. You must be the most miserable guy here 😭
So many miserable cornballs that make fresh alts just for playoff shit talking it’s insane they populate every game thread saying wild stuff like wishing injuries on players and attacking players’ families (saw a Philly fan shit talk KAT’s late mom on Mother’s Day)
A lot of nasty comments on KAT in general tbh
imagining needing an alt account on reddit period
This is their 4th of July. They’re lighting fireworks lol.
I dont think he’s an OKC fan tho bc I can’t find one positive comment about any team or player
No they are a hater and it’s a hateration tonight.
If you see randomword-randomword-numbers usernames, 99 times out of 100 it’s a jackass.
He’s giving bitter divorced dad energy lmao
I think it’s more like “mom took away my PS5 privileges again” energy.
Facts! JJ is a podcaster lol he’s not a coach. All he gonna do is keep getting swept 😂.
The fat cats couldn’t be bothered to watch a sweep so actual fans where allowed to attend?
Yep
what happens when you dont let celeberities be the only ones who can afford them lol
He got a little choked up but I don’t see tears. Crowd was great because the tickets were lower, too bad it took being down 0-3 to get some energy.
Took going down 0-3 for them to lower tickets prices to affordable levels for real fans to show up and boost the team
JJ was ready to bust out a poem just like in his Duke days.
https://youtu.be/PdDugNiNlV4?si=RNxaf293anKEMJ-R
Shaq reciting Rudyard Kipling to Ayton will be fun
Been really impressed with JJ’s coaching. Everyone clowned on the hire last season because he didn’t have experience and was co hosting a podcast with LeBron. But he’s proven that he has a really good mind for the game. He managed the entire season rarely having a fully healthy roster and Deandre Ayton.
What Deandre ayton does to a man
At least laravia wasnt in
It looked like he was crying during a timeout either before the AR 3 miss or just after. Camera was moving a little fast so I couldn’t be sure
That roster had no business doing as well as they did this year. Especially without Luka in the playoffs.
Because you actually gave them something to root for. No wonder the price to get in was cheap.
Except that big guy with his kid standing by the scorer’s table. That guy was a tool.
the first 5 rows of a Lakers game probably arent real fans tbf
That crowd woke up in the 3rd, was awesome to see
Stand proud, Redick.
Lakers: hey guys, we will throw yall a bone for the last game of the season. Starting next year we raising the prices sky high so enjoy!!
Crowd sounded like the old Staples from the Kobe days.
I wish bigger market teams like the Lakers made it to where normal actual fans can afford to attend games. I get their whole thing was to curate the game experience to a certain level of stardom but the average fan is what is the actual heart and soul of a game atmosphere. Seems like they had those fans in attendance tonight and they definitely had an impact.
The problem isn’t really with the Lakers setting face value of the tickets, it’s the demand of the tickets that sets the price. The Lakers could make the good seats only worth \(20 or \)50, but scalpers would scoop them up and sell them for the same amounts that they’re selling them for now. The demand would only change if the Lakers set the face value so high that hardly anyone wanted them anymore. That’s why the Clippers have the lowest attendance in the league: Ballmer has set their prices higher than what people actually value them at, so they end up with empty seats. Laker demand is higher, so even at high prices they’re still selling out tickets, it’s just to rich snobs who aren’t the “crazy fan” types.
Loved seeing OBAA cast sitting courtside to watch. Loved that fucking movie.
OBAA
Why do people do this?
For real, no one references that movie with an acronym. Just type it out. So stupid and lazy.
Im still waiting for someone to decode it.
edit: I think its “One Battle After Another”
Which movie is better: NCFOM or TWBB?
Sixers punching air rn
I shoulda went to this game than Saturdays game. Could’ve saved a hundo.
I like, respect and appreciate JJ. He’s got gumption and he keeps improving.
Ham went to the conference finals.
Y’all should hire him!
I thought JJ did great as a head coach for the lakers and I’m not even a lakers fan
IMO, those are probably tears of frustration like “if I just had the right pieces, I could’ve won that series”
I know that’s how I’d feel
I’m surprised the tickets were so cheap for this game, who knows, might actually be LeBron’s last time in the playoffs…
Tears up? A bit hyperbolic
jj coached his heart out and they fought to the end, fantastic game.
The Laker crowd certainly weren’t cheering loud in game 3. And I’m not paying to watch them on Prime. Next year more games will probably be on Prime which means I won’t be watching those games either.
Ben Afleck from the side, Simon Cowell from the front. Bless
It sounded deafening on the broadcast.
The team was shit, but yeah glaze the idiots paying for the seats who are going to be charged +10% next year
what did he tear up
Only 2 more years and this dude’s gonna be out of the NBA but right into a job with McKinsey
He gone.
He’ll learn from the Rui mistake. Man is a great coach and deserves to build around Luka.
Lol meh 😕
Dude it’s a sport and played by the millionaires and they are now headed to an expensive summer vacation that average people can only dream of.
did someone ask his reasoning for kleber over rui
They lost 3 games in a row. At that point, you have to throw shit at the wall to see what sticks
Huh? not when it’s your hottest 3 point shooter and you need a 3
JJ seems really protected. He always gets praise, despite losing 4-0. Maybe a controversial take, but I think doubling and triple SGA caused the sweep. He was concentrated more on stopping SGA than stopping the Thunder. And SGA is one of the only superstars who is fine to not chase numbers and swing the ball on the double.
Nah I think most of us recognize it as the only thing giving an outmatched roster a shot - in the first 3 games you could see it crumble in real time because the defensive execution would start to slip as the game went on and no one could score on the opportunities they did get.
LeSwept
✔️✔️🧹🧹 loving it. Send Lebrick and Lebrick jr home and tell JJ get back in a podcast chair 😂.
And he repaid that gratitude by benching their best 3pt shooter when they needed a 3…
They needed an off the dribble 3 in case the shooter got crowded. Rui is not an off the dribble shooter, and Kleber is a better screener.
I don’t get the fixation.
12 seconds on the clock (plenty time for a play), you NEED a 3 to tie the game, and the guy who has been draining 3s all series isn’t even ON THE FLOOR.
There’s an understandable frustration from fans over a baffling coaching decision.
You’re downvoted but the Lakers subreddit live game thread said the exact same thing. They were mostly baffled leaving Rui off the floor.
Anyone who doesn’t believe it, the bounty of receipts are still up in that thread.
JJ is podcaster and not a coach. He’s gonna continue to get swept.
L take
Ahhh yes another sweep for the podcasting coach era of the lakers. Got swept with Luka in the first round last year. Beat a beat up rockets team missing players and got overrated credit for that and now swept again. The excuses will rain high but nothing like a good ole sweep to silence the glazers 😂. Thank you OKC ✔️.
Uhh… lakers didn’t have two of their best players too
What a crybaby.
He’s crying because he got swept.
Makes sense to me.
This is such disingenous shit.
Call it what it was. JJ decided to turn this series into some kinda showcase for AR as a primary ballhandler.
Kennard went back to the corner. Only Smart/Lebron/Austin were allowed to dribble the ball. Sets were like elementary and didn’t even accentuate the strengths of the each individual player.
You all understand that Rui went AWOL on his offense yes? Obviously he has next to zero set plays, but Rui is rhytmically settling for 20 footers. I am absolutely certain JJ wants him shot 3s over long twos. Else why not just give him the weakside short corner is base set. Give’s him the option to cut to dunk, or flare back.
This is like when GV went AWOL last year and decided to pull 26 off the dribble 3s at the wing.
Even taking out RUI to get AR that last ATO…..
???? Rui didn’t go AWOL he played like this all season, he usually either takes a 3, does a 1 2 dribble pullup middy or cuts baseline. Anyway JJ said earlier this season that he’s fine with Rui taking 2 pointers because he’s so efficient at them
Do you really think JJ was thinking, Rui, if you get that offensive rebound, you get to ignore getting a reset on the clock, dial your number, run back to the three and hit a miracle 4 pt play?
Send in your coaching resume to any NBA team if you think you’re better than their current coach
Back to podcasting for this fraud
It’s always unflaired users with the most toxic and insane takes. They didn’t lose this series because of JJ. They lost to a vastly superior team.
He should do a show tonight talking about getting sweep 😂😂.