I need USA advice! - card shops, NBA games etc

[ozballer23]

Thanks to the sale of my MJ LL, I get to experience a childhood dream of mine of travelling to the US and enjoying a couple of weeks in LA and Vegas. Need some advice on how and where to purchase game tickets, merchandise stores and card shops!

 

[Matty4292]

Awesome Mate!! I love it there! I'm going back for the 6th time on the 15th of Nov

Game tickets is easy, Stubhub.com is easily your best bet. Try and go for the e-ticket ones, just to make life easier.

As for Merch stores there is a Champs Sports and a Foot Locker House of Hoops at the Beverly Centre in Beverly Hills and there are also several sports stores and another House of Hoops in Las Vegas.

If you have any non-ball related Q's, I'm actually a travel agent so shoot me a PM if you have any questions!

 

[ozballer23]

Awesome Mate!! I love it there! I'm going back for the 6th time on the 15th of Nov

Game tickets is easy, Stubhub.com is easily your best bet. Try and go for the e-ticket ones, just to make life easier.

As for Merch stores there is a Champs Sports and a Foot Locker House of Hoops at the Beverly Centre in Beverly Hills and there are also several sports stores and another House of Hoops in Las Vegas.

If you have any non-ball related Q's, I'm actually a travel agent so shoot me a PM if you have any questions!

Awesome mate! Thanks for the reply! PM sent

 

[anakinleo]

Just been there 1 month ago. If you have plans to visit any particular card store, let me know. I'll be able to tell whether it is worth your while. Cheers Alex

 

[ozballer23]

Just been there 1 month ago. If you have plans to visit any particular card store, let me know. I'll be able to tell whether it is worth your while. Cheers Alex

Hey Alex, any good card stores in LA and Vegas?

 

[anakinleo]

Are you driving in either LA or LV? Makes a hell of a difference.

 

[ozballer23]

Are you driving in either LA or LV? Makes a hell of a difference.

not planned yet!

 

[anakinleo]

For example, in LV, if you have no car, you can forget about going to the card stores. Because the card store is situated outside the strip, the public transport there is absolutely crap. Furthermore, you gonna a temperature of mid-30 or even high 30, so you'll be sweating like a pig when you reach there. Alternatively you can take a cab, it would cost about $120 return trip in cab fares from the strip.

 

[ozballer23]

For example, in LV, if you have no car, you can forget about going to the card stores. Because the card store is situated outside the strip, the public transport there is absolutely crap. Furthermore, you gonna a temperature of mid-30 or even high 30, so you'll be sweating like a pig when you reach there. Alternatively you can take a cab, it would cost about $120 return trip in cab fares from the strip.

hire a car for that!

 

[anakinleo]

Thats right, you will need a car.

But to be honest when I was in LV, my mind wasn't on cards.... if you get my drift......

 

[hegotgame15]

You 100% MUST have a car in L.A and Vegas, its very easy to drive there and its the only way to see everything...
Its way cheaper then you might think too....

 

[matm]

just got back from the US and I agree Stub Hub is the best way to go to get tickets to games.
Try http://www.cardshopfinder.com/ for card shops or if you are staying in the one place for a while use Dave and Adams for boxes.

 

[sskillswitch]

Congrats mate. The best one of my cards could net me is a trip to the bottle shop haha. Trying to save up to head over late next year myself. Hope you have a great time champ!

 

[twizz]

I just paid for my trip to LA/Vegas/NYC in the weekend... I'm going in Feb though...

Haven't paid for my tickets to NBA games yet though, I'll be in LA for lakers/suns clippers/rockets, and going to afew knicks games and nets games.. card shops aren't really on my agenda seeing the games are as its my dream to watch the lakers and plan on spending abit on good seats

and plan on sitting behind the lakers bench and tossing up if i should pay for courtside to clippers games lakers $550 per ticket , clippers courtside $405

 

[ozballer23]

I just paid for my trip to LA/Vegas/NYC in the weekend... I'm going in Feb though...

Haven't paid for my tickets to NBA games yet though, I'll be in LA for lakers/suns clippers/rockets, and going to afew knicks games and nets games.. card shops aren't really on my agenda seeing the games are as its my dream to watch the lakers and plan on spending abit on good seats

and plan on sitting behind the lakers bench and tossing up if i should pay for courtside to clippers games lakers $550 per ticket , clippers courtside $405

Looking at getting tickets for Dec 18 Lakers - Bobcats!

 

[twizz]

for lakers... go to the lakers website from nba.com.... they also use ticket exchange for resell tickets

I found them to be abit cheaper than stubhub

 

[Matty4292]

You 100% MUST have a car in L.A and Vegas, its very easy to drive there and its the only way to see everything...
Its way cheaper then you might think too....

Not necessarily LA, I've been to LA 5 times and have never had a car. They have a great hop-on-hop-off tourist bus system that gets you everywhere you need to go and is cheaper than a car.

 

[ozballer23]

Not necessarily LA, I've been to LA 5 times and have never had a car. They have a great hop-on-hop-off tourist bus system that gets you everywhere you need to go and is cheaper than a car.

Ended up going with the Roosevelt on hlywd blvd!

 

[Matty4292]

Ended up going with the Roosevelt on hlywd blvd!

Good choice!! That's where I'm staying when I go in Nov.

Apparently it's a favourite amongst celebs too so you might see someone famous

 

[ozballer23]

Good choice!! That's where I'm staying when I go in Nov.

Apparently it's a favourite amongst celebs too so you might see someone famous

Got a sweet deal for it, seems to be in the middle of all the action!