Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
UCLA Bruins ( NCAA), 1959-1965 and 2011-2012
The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is a multi-purpose hall at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. In her sporting events, concerts and other events. Opened in 1959, Hall was among other sports venue of the Olympic Summer Games 1984. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The visitor capacity is depending on the event 14000-17000.
History and special events
The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena took place on April 7, 1958. The building cost a total of $ 8,500,000. On July 4, 1959, was opened by the U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, the hall in which the title fight of the first sporting competition was held four days later bantamweight between Jose Becerra and Alphonse Halimi. 1960 was the Democratic National Convention, was sent to the John F. Kennedy in the race for the presidency, in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena instead. Between 1960 and 1967 carried the Los Angeles Lakers NBA games from in the hall, from 1984 to 1990 did so also the Los Angeles Clippers. 1967 played the Los Angeles Kings their first NHL season in the Memorial Sports Arena. During the 1984 Summer Olympics the championship boxing matches were held in the hall.
In the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena numerous concerts of famous musicians took place. Among other things, there were Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd.
After 1999, the LA Clippers left the hall and the university basketball team USC Trojans, who fought out from 1959 to 2006 there games, also no longer plays there, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena has lost its former rank and many high-class events are about at Staples Center.
Home teams
In the hall a variety of teams from different sports have played their home games. After the departure of the Los Angeles Temptation returns for a season, the basketball team of the UCLA Bruins in the arena back. Whether after the departure of the UCLA Bruins another team will host its home games in the arena, is currently not known.
Home teams are or were: