It had been seven years since Justin Jimenez brought his sons to a Lakers game, so this time the boys took it into their own hands.
They bought their dad tickets for his birthday, and fate intervened when Jimenez was approached to take a half-court shot worth $45,000 — though he took some persuading.
“I was like, ‘Ah, the boys are here, we came up from San Diego — what are the chances of me making it?’” Jimenez said. “Nobody was expecting me to make it, so why not?”
Jimenez, a 46-year-old business intelligence engineer, simply didn’t want to airball the Park MGM Big Shot Jackpot.