Can you feel the excitement NBA fans? Its not the NBA Finals we were all expecting, but this series should be one heck-of-a-series. We’ve seen a lot of fans trying to get their hands on cheap NBA Finals tickets, and if these teams play as hard as they have all season you can expect the demand to continue. Fans in Orlando are going nuts with anticipation, as this might be the teams best chance to win their first title ever. Right about now, 2009 NBA Finals tickets for the LA Lakers vs the Orlando Magic are as hot as the sun.
Fans have been looking for tickets for the NBA Finals all over, and with teams this good its no surprise. Fans of both teams are hoping to win the the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, but only one can. The Lakers are looking for their 15th NBA Championship, while fans with Orlando Magic tickets are hoping this is the year the team finally wins the whole kielbasa. The thought of a title is part of why Magic Finals tickets are so crazy big right now. Its going to be a wild time at the Staples Center and the Amway Arena, as both teams have some insane fans.
If you look at the past two regular seasons, the Magic get the edge as they won both meetings this year and 3 of their last four. But this is the NBA Finals, a completely different monster than a regular season game. It seems the Magic are getting hot at just the right time, because they were not looking that hot until halfway through the Celtics season. But they are looking good now and cheap NBA Finals tickets are the talk of the town. The Magic beat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games then were pushed to seven games by a hobbled defending champion Boston Celtics team. This was the series were Dwight Howard started making his presence known, and the Magic carried that momentum into the Eastern Finals. We all know that the Magic were able to humble the King, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers, pre-season favorites to win the whole thing, in seven games were the Magic looked like the better team all the way.
The Lakers have not had as much of a challenge, with the Nuggets looking sharp early but faltering down the stretch. The Lakers beat the Utah Jazz in five games in the first round. They went into Houston, were Shane Battier and Ron Artest game them a handful even after Yao Ming wen down. But the Lakers were too much for a Ming-less Rockets team to handle. Then the Nuggets With Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups looked like they could challenge the defending Western Conference champs but were unable to seal the deal.
Of course the Magic feature on of the biggest and most talented players in the game in 23-year-old six-foot-eleven-inch center Dwight Howard, who has matured by leaps and bounds during the 2009 playoffs. And then the star on the Lakers is Kobe, the 30-year-old shooting guard who has three rings to his name. We all recall that Kobe and the Lakers took three consecutive NBA Championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002. But, as Magic fans will be quick to point out, the Lakers at that time not only featured Bryant, but Shaquille O’Neal as well. The seven-foot and 325 pounder is certain to go into the Hall of Fame as one of the best centers of all time. Since Kobe managed to get Shaq traded he has not been able to win another ring even though he played in the Finals in both 2004 and 2008.
Should the Lakers beat the Magic, it will be their 15th championship all time. And if Phil Jackson’s team wins, it will make him the head coach with the most all-time championships, as he and Red Auerbach both have nine. Fans with Magic tickets know that this is just the team’s second chance ever to win the title. They were swept in 1995 by the Houston Rockets. The 2009 NBA Finals is in a 2-3-2 format. So that means that after the Finals start at LA for two games, the action shifts to Orlando for three games, and if the series goes to seven, the Lakers and Magic will return to Los Angeles for games six and seven.
