10 NBA Arenas That No Longer Exist

Which of these arenas was your favorite?

The seminal moment at McNichols was probably the 1976 ABA All Star game, which featured the first slam dunk competition featuring Julius Erving and David Thompson. That was probably the beginning the skills competition that all leagues now feature even more than the game itself.

The Palace only saw 1 NBA title happen "within its walls" - 2004. The '89 and '90 titles were both won on the road.

I guess the Richfield Coliseum does not rank up there with the big boy. Home for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1974 to 1994. It hosted one All-Star game in 1981. It was the site for Larry Bird's last professional game. The fight between Chuck Wepner vs. Muhammad Ali on 3-24-1975 was here which inspired the idea for "Rocky". It is an empty field now, part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

The Chicago Stadium was dope;It was so close to the court and loud. The nosebleeds would've been considered great seats compared to 300 section at the United Center

Amazing vid. I knew about all of them, but it's always a pleasure to see that pics again and it's really well narrated 💪

God i miss market square arena so many memories for me

also forgot the spectrum in Philly it was demolished a long time after wells fargo center opened

I sure miss the Charlotte Coliseum. It was an amazing place to see games and concerts; and so easy to get in and out of. It was a cursed buidling though. The scoreboard fell onto the basketball court shortly after construction. They had to rush a replacement before the Hornets first game. Years later, Bobby Phils was killed in a car crash leaving practice when he was racing teammate David Wesley.

Btw. MSG IV wasn't built on the site of MSG III. MSG IV was built on the old main building of the Pennsylvania Station. The MSG 3 stood nearly a mile in the north of MSG IV

Great video, thanks! Pistons played at Joe Louis arena and at Silverdome too.

Really upset that Malace at the Palace was not mentioned when talking about The Palace

Fun fact about the Bradley Center... it was one of the cheapest arenas made at the time, yet it held almost everything from monster truck shows, to concerts, to sports. The only reason this historic venue isn't around today is because of Adam Silver stating "the square footage was too small for an NBA team". Which is like wtf. But yeah, eventually Fiserv Forum was made, and it's literally identical to the Bradley Center in every way... except it's bigger

Other than the Boston Garden and Chicago Stadium, this video shows how wasteful we are with sports stadiums as a country. A stadium should last longer than 19-30 years, yet Charlotte and Miami are prime examples of a waste of people’s taxpayer dollars that helped pay for those one and dones in the first place!

The Summit/Compaq Center - Houston, Texas. Where the Rockets won the 94 and 95 NBA championships! Lakewood Church now resides there.

They didn’t mention the Summit, which was taken over by Joel Osteen after Toyota Center was built and the Rockets and all other entertainment moved there.

Main reason for Omni’s demise in addition to those stated was issues with the structure design

10:05 Market Square Arena was the home of the Pacers from the second or third year of the ABA (1960s) to 1999 (they played games at the Indiana State Faregrounds before that, at least part of the time, and they may have played games at Butler University in that first ABA season). It was also the long-time home of "Hoosier Hysteria", the Indiana State High School Basketball championship and usually also hosted the playoffs for the Central Indiana area leading to that championship. Not to mention plenty of Globetrotter games, some College championship games and playoffs.... And like any basketball arena, LOTS of non-basketball events hosted, especially big concerts....

Not only the celtics played at the Boston garden, the Boston bruins also played there.

Forgot about the Salt Palace.