{"id":484923,"date":"2026-02-22T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484923"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:22:14","slug":"lakers-set-major-ticket-price-hikes-for-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-set-major-ticket-price-hikes-for-the-2026-27-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers set major ticket price hikes for the 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1957\">The Los Angeles Lakers have sent renewal forms to season-ticket holders ahead of 2026-27, outlining a <strong data-start=\"1722\" data-end=\"1754\">significant pricing increase<\/strong> following new owner Mark Walter\u2019s takeover. One example shared publicly points to a 14% rise in the section price, plus an additional <strong data-start=\"1889\" data-end=\"1914\">3% administrative fee<\/strong> if the invoice isn\u2019t paid in full upfront.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1959\" data-end=\"2249\">Another long-time season-ticket holder in the 300 level provided documentation to ESPN showing a sharper spike: from $6,192 in 2025-26 to $9,035 for 2026-27 (it was $5,494 in 2024-25). That translates to a <strong data-start=\"2165\" data-end=\"2179\">45.9% hike<\/strong> year over year, after a 12.7% increase in the previous renewal cycle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2251\" data-end=\"2595\">The Lakers confirmed the planned changes in a statement, saying they are \u201cadjusting season ticket pricing for next season\u201d and that the updates \u201creflect the current market landscape and demand.\u201d Through 26 home games in 2025-26, ESPN Research lists average attendance at 18,877, which is <strong data-start=\"2539\" data-end=\"2548\">99.8%<\/strong> of the 18,910 capacity shown for Lakers games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season-ticket renewals reveal steep increases, with some sections seeing jumps up to +45.9% and a potential added fee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484923"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484923"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484923"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}