Should I go to a Clippers game?

[Rondo9dunx]

I'm a celts fan, grew up in Everett, MA moved to Southern California in 2001. I live about 35-40 minutes away from the Staples Center and have been contemplating going to a Clippers home game all season. The tickets cost as little as $3 when they are playing teams with losing records. I figured i'd take advantage of such a matchup and get some really good seats for like $80. I have checked on stubhub etc and for 80-100 dollars you can get into a seat that will pretty much guarantee that you're on TV quite a bit. I dont care about getting on TV that just means that you're in a great spot to see the game, which is what I want.

I would love to go to the upcoming clippers/celtics game but the good seats are way too expensive.

What would you guys do? I have been dying to go to an NBA game but the odds of me getting tickets to a celtics game are pretty slim because I have 2 kids that I want to bring as well and will never have 700 dollars to spend on regular season basketball tickets. I figure they are western conference anyways, so its not like i'm turning my back on my team, and i've been out here for almost 10 years, I figure as long as its not the lakers it shouldn't matter if i'm cheering for a team in the west with a losing record, right?


Has anyone been to a clippers home game this year? Seems like it would be an extremely exciting atmosphere with Griffin droppin bombs all night.

[Edgar]

I would go only to see Blake
But DeAndre is having a nice moment, and Eric Gordon can go shoot le light off nights every other day
So yup theyre pretty nice to watch.
I probably choose a game against a nondefensive team, like Cleveland this days...lol
to see them rocking

[Rondo9dunx]

I would go only to see Blake
But DeAndre is having a nice moment, and Eric Gordon can go shoot le light off nights every other day
So yup theyre pretty nice to watch.
I probably choose a game against a nondefensive team, like Cleveland this days...lol
to see them rocking

Yea thats a good idea. Gordon has been fun to watch on TV, would def be goin just to see blake for the most part tho heh

[fairweatherfan]

Go to the game - Clips are an exciting team although not a very good one.  See if you can find a night where they play another mediocre but fun team, like Golden State or Memphis.  Tix should be cheap and the game should be competitive.

[pearljammer10]

Definitely go to any game that you can. Especially if you can get tix for 3 dollars. Who cares where you sit, the atmosphere of an NBA game is great. When I go to Celtics games i actually sometimes prefer sitting in the balcony because I can see everything going on all at the same time.

I bet you could find some reasonable tickets when the celtics come to town. I guess it is LA however and the prices might go sky high for a quality team like that. When I as in Charolette the Celtics were in town and I got lower level seats for like 45 bucks, granted there were more celts fans there than bobcats fans and the stadium was still only 75% full for the Celtics...

[apc]

Has anyone been to a clippers home game this year? Seems like it would be an extremely exciting atmosphere with Griffin droppin bombs all night.

I went to game last year (I live in San Diego)it was my sons first game. Unfortunately we lost in the last second of the game.
I paid about 40 $ for upper deck sits.
The good thing is, clippers don’t have lots of fans, so i would say close to 50% of the fans will be Celtics fans.

[Snakehead]

I would rather go to a Clippers game than most good teams games.  Griffin and Jordan are dunk masters and a ton of fun to watch and Baron has been making some big plays and looking a lot better (how about that dunk against Miami?  That's the Boomdizzle I knew).  Also Eric Gordon is a great young player and Bledsoe has looked very good too at times.

They are an entertaining team for sure.  I'd love to go to a game.

[housecall]

Now that the Clipps have beaten the Heat it might be worth checking out their game on the 16th aganist the Lakers.If i was living in LA i would probably go to that one,just to root aganist the Lakers.I have a gut feeling the Clipps might win this one.

[blake]

Clipper fan/Celtics fan/Celticsblog's villain Bill Simmons wrote an article that might be of some help a few months ago.  It ranked the teams that he wanted to see.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmonsnfl2010/101015&sportCat=nba

I think I would go with any in that "young guns" category.  I would love to see John Wall play, and also Brandon Jennings.  I would also throw the Warriors in this list to see Stephen Curry.

Also, watching Steve Nash play is a must.  Tickets to the Suns should be reasonably cheap.

[Rondo9dunx]

I was just looking at the tickets for the celtics game in LA feb 26 vs the clippers. They are actually really reasonable. You can get a seat right behind the celtics bench for like 280. And a good upper deck seat for like 60-80. There were also 3 baseline tickets right near the celts bench available... hmm, it is tax season... maybe i'll spring for the good seats lol

[GreenEnvy]

ABSOLUTELY.

I'd love to see them play, especially for Blake. But also Gordon, Bledsoe, and Jordan. Heck, seeing Gomes again would be nice.

Seriously, they are a fun team to watch.

For as little as their tickets can go for, you should definitely go.

When are they playing IN Boston? Maybe I'll make a trip up there to see them...