Ticketmaster CEO Azoff brings LA Lakers’ G League team to Coachella — 1 day after Post’s reporting of 2010 merger bad blood
Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff has brought the Los Angeles Lakers' G League team, now named the Coachella Valley Lakers, to Coachella, where they will play home games at Acrisure Arena. The move comes one day after a report detailed ongoing tensions between Azoff and Barry Diller over the 2010 Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger. Azoff, a senior partner at Oak View Group, which operates the arena, expressed enthusiasm about the team's new home and confidence in local support for professional basketball.
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Page Six Hollywood Ticketmaster CEO Azoff brings LA Lakers’ G League team to Coachella — 1 day after Post’s reporting of 2010 merger bad blood By Tim Baysinger Published May 1, 2026, 9:45 a.m. ET Coachella now even has its own basketball team. A day after we reported there’s still bad blood between moguls Barry Diller and Irving Azoff over the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger in 2010, Azoff made his latest business move — bringing the LA Lakers’ G League team to Coachella. The Coachella Valley Lakers will play their home games at Acrisure Arena. Azoff, the veteran Eagles’ manager (the band, not the team), is a senior partner of Oak View Group, which operates Acrisure.
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