Taylor egging it on. He loves to see that competitive fight. All she’s been through. Taylor, congratulations. Firing. Yo. Is it me or I’m starting to see a lot more black people at tennis matches? It. I’m not. Because I know that Serena and Venus Williams take over. I know that that was a thing. We’ve y’all been there. It seemed like it’s way more though. It seemed like nah. It ain’t a whole lot of y’all in hockey. I’ve been to a… I’ve been to a… A few hockey matches. Over the past couple of years. And uh… And it ain’t been a whole lot of black people hanging out in the hockey rink.

Imma just tell you that right now. For some reason y’all just don’t like the code. Nah nah but… It’s like it’s a whole lot of black people that’s starting to be at the tennis matches. Since Coco and Naomi, the presence has increased. It’s always been black. I know it’s always been black people there. But it seemed like, you know, it’s been a lot bigger presence. A lot bigger, a lot more people that are going to the actual tennis matches themselves. And now it’s starting to get turned up. I remember, you know what I’m saying? When you would see the Andre Agassiz and all of those people.

When they was actually, you know, really doing a big thing in the… In tennis. It didn’t seem like it was as rowdy. It didn’t seem like it was as engaging. Everybody was like, Four. Love. And I was like, Yeah! Yeah! Kick her ass! And I’m like, Whoa! What is going on? Is tennis lit now? Is tennis that lit? Black people definitely getting in the pickle ball. Let me see what else you got to say. Look at the lady over there in the pink. That’s right above her right shoulder. Look how rowdy she is.

Watch the lady. Look. You see what I’m saying? Like, it’s getting extra. Look at all of the black people. It’s just as many black people inside of the audience, if not more, than it is white people. Y’all telling me we got to go and get our tennis on? We got to go and go to the tennis matches and now y’all want to forget the NBA games. NBA games is getting a little expensive anyway. How much do it cost to go to the tennis matches? U.S. open seats cost. Let’s see what we got.

U.S. open ticket prices for 2025 tournament range from under $100 for grounds passes to over $10,000 for court side seats during the finals with costs varying significantly on the tournament round, the stadium, and a specific session. The day of the tournament, you can find tickets in the secondary market, so that ain’t even that expensive compared to private VIP luxury suites are available. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes exceeding $120,000. It’s not that bad. Not compared to football and basketball is out of control. Basketball is out of control, bro.

Basketball ain’t got no business being as expensive as it is. Lakers court side tickets can cost from a few thousand dollars for lower demand games to over $40,000 for higher demand matchups. I remember last year in the Knicks, you know, because the Knicks and the Pistons was playing in the playoffs, bro, there were seats that were $50,000 both in Little Caesars Arena and over there in New York at Madison Square Garden. I said, bro, wait a minute. And I’m not saying $50,000 for whatever. $50,000 for the goddamn one game per seat.

So the pair was like $200,000, $100,000. The pair of seats was $100,000 plus for, you say, what do I pay? You don’t want to know what I pay, bro. I can pull it up. Let’s see. Pisses. I still owe some money on my tickets. Season ain’t started yet, so I’m not in no rush. I don’t know what personal information is on here, so I don’t want to show y’all my login stuff or whatever. I don’t even remember my login information. Let’s see. Pisses, Anton, Pay Invoice. It’s too expensive. Oh, I got it up here.

There it is. Yep, there it is right there. I’ll pay 105, $105,000 a year for my tickets. I’ve paid $65,000 so far. My next amount due is $13,000. I got three more payments. I got three more payments of $13,000. I get billed the first of every month. So that’s what I pay for mine. I pay $105,000 a year for my court-side seat tickets. It’s expensive, bro. It really is expensive. If you’re telling me that I can get $10,000 seats for the finals match, court-side, for tennis, I’d rather go to that than to be spending $100,000 a year on business tickets.

But let me say this. The one thing is, I will say this, that kind of saves you a little bit. The one thing that kind of saves you… Well, yeah, I’m on a plan to plan. Why would I give you $100,000 upfront when I can get on an interest-free payment plan? I can make eight payments for $13,000 apiece and I can let the money continue to make money inside of the stock market, and then I’ll pull the money out as I need it and pay it as it is. If it’s interest-free, I’m never going to give you $100,000 upfront because I’m losing money.

That don’t make sense. But the flip side is, I will tell you this, is that the one thing that kind of saves you when it comes to these is because you get 41 games, right? Now, some games is going to be better than others, obviously, because you’re going to have the local games, and then you’ve got the Golden State, you’ve got the Lakers, you’ve got the Knicks that’s coming a couple different times or multiple different times. And then you’ve got whatever. You’ve got whatever other games, whatever big games, Miami come.

You know, Oklahoma City is going to be coming. And so what happens is, if I’m not in town or if I decide that I don’t want to, I don’t want to go to those particular games, then what’ll happen is I can actually sell those games or I can give them over to somebody that I’m doing business with. So sometimes a lot of y’all have seen throughout the years that I’ll be like, hey, which bag chaser is going to be in the town for this game? Or if it’s somebody that’s local, I’ll send it to some of the Patreon members.

I’ll give them court-sized seats to the game. Or if it’s my mom and then my mom, I’ll send my mom to a game. I’ll send my daughter. I’ll take my daughter to games or whatever. So I give games out for Christmas, for certain stuff like that. So you pick and choose which games that you want to actually go to, and I’ve got them all in my calendar, and then you just kind of figure it out from there. So I pay $100,000 a year, actually $105,000 a year for my tickets. So that kind of saves you a little bit.

You know what I’m saying? You wind up not spending as much money for the games simply because you can balance it out. And then you get your own certain parking spaces. You get to go through your own private entrance. All of that type of stuff. But, you know, a lot of times, I’ll say at least for maybe 20, at least half of the games, you either giving them away or you probably going to sell them. You’re going to make a bag because you got court-sized seats and a lot of Lakers fans like to travel.

So if I decide not to go to the Lakers games, like I give you an example, a good friend of mine that I do business with hit me up every year, and he’d be like, Anton, pick a couple games that you want to go to. So I automatically tell him, yep, I want to go to the Lakers and I want to go to Golden State. And I’ll show you some of the text messages. And so I’ll take their tickets and then I’ll sell mines because, you know, they want to keep doing business with me.

And so they send me games to the Lakers and Golden State. So it’s some games, you know, hey Anton, he called me, say Anton, what games you want to go to. I don’t want to show his phone number. Let me see if I can block that off. I don’t want to show the phone number. So I got different people that I do business with. Hey, this is Anton. Can I do the Lakers on March 23rd? He said, yes, sir. I’ll block it off and once the tickets get closer, I’ll send you the tickets.

So I got different people that I do a lot of business with and we may make, you know, I may do a, you know, make a lot of money with them or whatever. They got tickets literally right next to mines. So they’ll send me the Lakers tickets and then I’ll either send mine to somebody else or I’ll go and sell my tickets and so I’ll make $20,000 off of that. So you clear it. You know what I’m saying? It’s not like you’re just going to completely be out of $105,000.

Yeah, I paid for it up front, but throughout the season, I might get like 80 something thousand dollars back. You still got the tickets to the games that you want to go to. And so it’s a hack. You know what I’m saying? A lot of people think that people that got money or people that spend this type of money on these tickets, they just be out of it. They don’t. It’s either a corporate account or you learn how to hack and you learn how to move around a little differently and you give them to clients.

You do business. You offer tickets to people. People offer tickets to you. You can leverage the fact that you spend a lot of money with certain people and then you manage the business relationship and like that and then you wind up really only spending $20,000. But here’s the real play. I’m going to tell you all the real life hack, right? Damn, I don’t even know if I want to tell you all this. All right, I’ll tell you all this other part. I’m going to leave that part out. The Patreon, not Patreon, the playoffs, right? So playoffs is an additional cost.

The playoffs is an additional cost, all right? But here’s the key. One of the reasons why we always like to get our tickets is not only do we get the majority of it back throughout the year, not only do we get to write it off from a business perspective, not only do we get to parse out the payments, which means that we allow it for our portfolio as we make money to continue to pay for the tickets, but also on top of it, this is the other one. The playoffs is a separate cost, right? It’s more or less equivalent, but they price you based off of what they think that the playoff run is going to be.

But here’s the thing. We automatically get first dibs on the playoff seats. The playoff seats often at times cost ten times more, or they go for ten times more than whatever it is that we’re paying for it as season ticket holders, right? So if we plan New York, like I was telling you, it was seats that’s literally next to mine that was going for $50,000. Whereas those individual games, if you really price it out, they may cost $2,000 apiece. And so, whereas we paying $4,000 for the seats, if you don’t want to go to the game, you can sell them on a secondary market for 20, 30, 40, and $50,000, and so you’re making all of your money back.

If you really understand how the game works, then that’s when you start to make a lot of money back, and you really can come out ahead by being a person that has the resources to buy the tickets in the first place because people want to be front row at the games, and that is the play. Everything in life is a life hack. When y’all go out here and you see rich people doing this or rich people doing that, what you’re not privy to is learning the game. The only people that’s losing money and getting finessed is the people that want to be seen but don’t understand how to play the game and they busy trying to impress other people.

See, I’m not a gatekeeper, so I’m going to tell you, and not only that, I’m going to actually show you the receipts because everything I do is a life hack. It’s a reason behind everything I do. I don’t spend money just because I got it. I spend money, enjoy myself, but I’m also making sure that I’m making smart business decisions while I’m doing it. Everything and everyone has to add value into your life. I’m going to say that again for y’all in the back because a lot of y’all think that, oh man, this rapper doing this.

No, that rapper is as dumb as fuck. Half the time that rapper may be getting his tickets because it’s good for the court to be able to do it. It’s smart rappers and it’s done rappers. It’s smart entertainers and it’s dumb entertainers. And so the smart entertainers are the ones that, yo, they call up, they rap. They may have some motion at the time. They may agree to do a halftime show and so they may get a couple different times where they can come down and sit in the seats where somebody agree, hey, I’m not going to the gang.

The arena or the team will ask, okay, well, can we use your seats for the night? That’s when they come and they bring the rapper and they put it inside. They sit them down. The rappers sit there acting like they spending a bunch of money. They ain’t spent nothing. They just, you scratch my back. I’m going to scratch your back, right? It’s other people, it’s other rappers, it’s other entertainers. Really, I’m going to tell you the people that’s really getting finessed in the gang. The people that’s really getting finessed, shout out to them, shout out to the tennis match.

I’m going to go to the tennis match because I just want to experience it at some point. The people that really get finessed is the scammers, the dope boys, the people that just got money and don’t really have no connections and don’t know how to network effectively and the people that’s trying to impress women. The scammers, the dope boys, the new money rappers or the new money entertainers and the people that don’t understand the game, don’t have no networking and it’s trying to impress women. Those are the people they get finessed.

You see Gucci Mane at every ATL Hawks game. That’s a fact, 392Q. [tr:trw].

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