Mavs vs. Lakers Sunday Primetime Game Among Hottest NBA Ticket Prices

Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday at American Airlines Center, and fans will have to pay a pretty penny to attend.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 22, 2023

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As the Dallas Mavericks prepare to begin a six-game homestand on Thursday night against the San Antonio Spurs, expectations are high for this final 22-game push to end the season.

With those high expectations -- fueled by the Mavs pulling off a blockbuster trade for Kyrie Irving before the deadline a little more than two weeks ago -- comes higher ticket prices for fans, though.

Although Thursday's game against the Spurs won't be affected as much, Sunday's matinee game against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will be a different story. The "get-in" price, according to Vivid Seats, is $296. For comparison, the "get-in" price for the game against San Antonio is $50.

Luka Doncic's Mavs vs. James' Lakers has always been must-watch basketball regardless of the teams' records. Doncic has always admired James, and James has routinely voiced how Doncic is his favorite young player in the league. But now, the intrigue gets taken up a notch, as Dallas has added James' former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate and champion in Irving.

Not to mention, the national media has rambled nonstop about James wanting Irving to sign with the Lakers this summer when he becomes an unrestricted free agent. Whether Mavs fans like it or not, that appears to be a relentless storyline for at least the next four months.

For the week of Feb. 20, the Mavs vs. Lakers game ranks as the second-most expensive ticket on the market. The Golden State Warriors at the Lakers on Thursday has the highest minimum ticket price of $414 according to Vivid Seats.

Nothing can beat the live experience of attending a marquee NBA matchups ... but with those kind of price hikes, we can't blame fans if they end up wanting to watch the game on ABC instead.

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Published Feb 22, 2023

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.