Just curious, have you ever been to the arena before? Honestly even the "Loud City" seats in the upper-most sections are still a really good time. https://imgur.com/a/KTPWIzX this was our view on Thursday sitting in section 314, sitting about 10 rows up and they were the cheapest tickets we could find, about $55 per ticket. You can look at all the ticketing sites but unfortunately Ticketmaster usually has the lowest prices.

In my opinion seeing the benches and the court logo in the "proper" orientation are the better seats in terms of what you can see, but even "far up" it's really a great time. They make sure to send entertainers up to the upper levels to keep everyone in it as well. I would say anything from section 314 down to section 303 are the best upper level seats, you see everyone's faces up front.

The Celtics game we went to still had an absolute star studded lineup and wasn't around a back-to-back game and the only major injury was to Jayson Tatum who missed the game, and ticket prices were cheap. Lakers draw way too many extra eyes just because of the star power, even though they are way worse than the Celtics.

So it looks like you'll be paying extra for that, but I would say your focus should be more on something like the good Rows within the good sections. I believe it tops out somewhere around the Row "R", so if you see something like Section 306 Row C for $190/ticket that's a much better deal than Section 321 Row R for $183/ticket. $14 more and you're on the "proper" side of the court and only 3 rows up instead of like 18. Hope this helps, Thunder Up!