Key Arena : Home of Seattle Supersonics NBA Team

Key arena is situated north of downtown Seattle, USA on the grounds of Seattle Center. Its primary tenants are the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association. It hosted the 1974 NBA All-Star Game.

The arena was opened in 1962 as the Seattle Center Coliseum. Apart from the SuperSonics, it is also home to the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association and the Seattle thunderbirds, a junior hockey team in the Western Hockey League. It is also used for non-athletic purposes, such as ice shows, circuses and concerts.

Key Arena is the first publicly financed arena fully supported by earned income from the building. Its seating capacity for basketball games is 17098, ice hockey games and ice shows 15177, end-stage concerts 16641 and center-stage concerts and boxing 17459. risers hold 7440 on the upper level and up to 7741 on the lower level, with luxury suites adding another 1160 seats.

Between 1994 and 1995, the arena was rebuilt. The new arena maintained the architectural integrity of the original roofline by using existing steel trusses in combination with four new main diagonal trusses. The court was lowered 35 feet below street level to allow for 3000 more seats.

The new arena was renamed as Key Arena, as Key Bank purchased the naming rights. The cost of renovation to the city of Seattle was $74.5 million and to the Seattle SuperSonics, it was approximately $21 million.

Officially, the first game played by the SuperSonics in the rebuilt arena was on November 4, 1995 against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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