Recession? Not With Lakers/Celtics Tickets

Go to Staples Center (or listen to sports talk radio) and you would think the Lakers have a one-week bye until the big game Christmas Day against the Celtics. For the record, there is a brutal four-game road trip first.

But the focus of the fans is on healing the psychic wounds inflicted by the Celtics last June. And people what to be there for what they pray will be a cathartic experience and are willing to pay heavily for it.

At a time when families are being increasingly cautious with their entertainment dollar as a result of the recent economic downturn, demand for tickets to the Lakers-Celtics Christmas Day showdown is still as strong as ever. The average resale price on StubHub, an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of tickets, for a ticket to the game is about $334 -- highest of any regular-season game this year and more than twice the $148 average last year's Lakers-Suns Christmas game fetched.

The free market at work, it's a beautiful thing.

But I’m warning you, if your wife finds out you spent more on Lakers tickets to get away from the family on Christmas Day than you did on her gift, there will be hell to pay.

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