San Diego Tickets Finder

Football season just started but tickets are already on sale for pre-season Basketball. San Diego will be the lucky host to the LA Lakers and the Utah Jazz this fall for a pre-season game at the San Diego Sports Arena (formerly Ipayone Center). If you can’t find the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:

1. AIW Tickets always has a great inventory and usually has the cheapest prices too.

2. Stubhub is an excellent place to shop online as well.
They’ll even let you sell your tickets there.

3. TicketsNow is also a solid after market ticket vendor and usually has access the hard to find tickets

4. If those aren’t cutting it for you try a couple of these ticket vendors as well:

Here’s some Trivia about the Lakers from wikipedia:

* As the Minneapolis Lakers, the team holds the record for the lowest-scoring NBA game ever played along with the Fort Wayne Pistons. On November 22, 1950, the Lakers were leading until the fourth quarter, when the Pistons pulled ahead to win 19 to 18. This took place in a time before efforts were made to speed up gameplay, such as the addition of the shot clock.
* Poker Legend Doyle Brunson claims in his book Super/System that the (then) Minneapolis Lakers had been making offers to sign him while he was playing college Basketball, until he broke his leg hauling sheet rock.
* Los Angeles is the only city to have two NBA teams (the other team being the Los Angeles Clippers).
* The Lakers and Miami Heat have a tradition of playing each other on Christmas Day. There has been a meeting between the Lakers and Heat on this day every year since 2004, when center Shaquille O’Neal was traded to Miami during the summer of 2004. However, this season will not have a Lakers-Heat match on Christmas Day, though, they will still appear on that day facing the Phoenix Suns and the Cleveland Cavaliers respectively.
* Former owner Jack Kent Cooke liked the color purple but disliked the term purple. As a result, during the era of his ownership, the colors he had chosen for his team were referred to as “Forum blue” and gold, rather than purple and gold. Even after Cooke sold the team, announcer Chick Hearn still sometimes used the description when describing the uniforms.
* The Los Angeles Lakers were the first team to own a NBDL team, the Los Angeles D-Fenders.
* Kobe Bryant’s 81-point performance against the Toronto Raptors on January 22, 2006 was the second highest point total in league history next to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point performance against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962.
* In the videogame NBA Ballers there is an unlockable video titled “How to Stop the Lakers” in reference to their championship runs in the early 2000s.
* In 1969, Jerry West became the only player on the losing team ever to win the NBA Finals MVP award.

And some info about the Jazz’s 06-07 season:

The Jazz had a surprisingly good start to the 2006-07 season, getting off to a league and franchise best 12–1 record, despite an injury to Kirilenko that caused him to miss 5 games. Williams showed remarkable improvement and finished second in the league in assists per game (behind Steve Nash), with 9.3, the most ever by any Jazz player except John Stockton. Carlos Boozer was selected to his first All-Star Game as a reserve, but missed the game due to injury; Mehmet Okur was selected as one of the four injury replacements and has developed a reputation as a remarkable clutch shooter. The team developed a very deep roster; in the 10 games that Boozer and Okur (the two leading scorers) missed, the team went 8–2. Paul Millsap became one the biggest surprise rookies of the year. The Jazz clinched their first playoff berth in 4 seasons on March 25, and on March 28 clinched the division title. The Jazz fared poorly in the last few weeks of the regular season and finished with 51–31 record, good for sixth overall in the league (behind the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons, and Houston Rockets). It was their best record in 6 seasons.

Utah unveiled a new baby blue alternate jersey against the Phoenix Suns on November 18, 2006 that features the lettering “Jazz” from their team logo on the front and “Utah” in uppercase block letters on both sides of the uniform’s shorts.

The Jazz will get their own D-League team at the beginning of the 2007-08 season, the Utah Flash, based in Orem.