NBA Finals 2010: Ron Artest buys a fan tickets worth $18,000
Ron Artest shelled out $18,000 to buy his Twitter fan two courtside seats for Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Artest, on Thursday, spent $18,000 for two countryside seats for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but guess for whom the tickets were bought! They were for a fan that had tweeted him on Twitter.
Ron Artest had earlier in the playoffs posted on his Twitter account that Phil Jackson should "shut his yapper."
"In the season I've been giving away a lot of tickets," Artest said. "I've been buying tickets and giving them away to fans, but it was championship time and I though the fans deserved to sit courtside."
Artest has used the social networking site to unveil his flamboyant hairstyles before showing off at any game. He also organized games of touch football on the beach through the site.
"Ninety-eight percent of people in L.A. don't go see a Lakers game," Artest said. "So, when I'm giving my two tickets that are up in the 10th row, they're extremely happy about those, if they're courtside, [they must be so happy that] I don't know if they're going to make it home tonight.
"I'm sure they were happy. Nine thousand dollars for a ticket ... I don't know what happened to the $5400 per ticket when I was here last year [as a spectator in the Western Conference finals]. I'm not happy about that, I was thinking about selling them [for more] when I bought them."
Lakers won Game 1 convincingly and being irrational will Artest want to buy a lucky fan a ticket for Game 2 also.
"No," Artest said. "That is it."
