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It is being reported that the Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers, will be renamed the Crypto.com Arena starting December 25th. It is a 20-year deal worth $700 million and starting Christmas Day, cryptocurrency will get nonstop name placement on ESPN and etc.
Most of the reaction has less to do with a company that produces fake Monopoly money purchasing the arena and way more to do with some nostalgic loss for the name of the Staples Center that has only existed since 1999 and isn’t nearly old enough to deserve any second thought.
No one thought it was odd that the arena was named after the place where you buy BIC pens and printer ink? Now we can’t live without the arena named after the place where you purchase manilla folders and post-it notes?
We should probably be more concerned with the rise of crypto bullshit that’s presented to Barstool bros as a more accessible way to make money than the stock market and as the future of money but it takes advantage of people’s uncertainty and scarce disposable income but it’s ultimately the equivalent of going to Disney World and putting a dollar bill into one of those machines that prints Mickey Mouse’s face on a penny.
The Staples Center is a terrible name but at least it doesn’t come attached with a Ponzi scheme. Just paper clips and marble notebooks. Can’t wait for the new Lakers fans that will rush to Crypto.com arena. All of them with the Drake heart shaved into their heads.
I suppose none of this matters because the Crypto.com Arena will be unveiled on Christmas Day and the Lakers are going to show out for their new home sponsors with a Russell Westbrook 2-for-14 shooting day to go along with his inevitable 20 turnovers to honor Nipsey Hussle’s love of cryptocurrency.
Shout out to the Clippers for moving to a new arena in Inglewood that won’t be sponsored by sketchy companies in Singapore.
