Thomas & Mack Center

UNLV Rebels ( NCAA basketball, since 1983) Las Vegas Thunder ( IHL ) 1993-1998) Las Vegas Flash ( RHI, 1994) Las Vegas dust devils ( CISL, 1995) Las Vegas Sting (AFL, 1995) Las Vegas Gladiators ( AFL, 2003-2006)

The Thomas & Mack Center is a multi-purpose hall in Las Vegas in the U.S. state of Nevada. The hall is owned by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and stands on the campus of the University. It is named after the business partners E. Parry Thomas and Jerome Mack, two bankers from Nevada who donated money for the construction.

History

On 16 December 1983, the multi-purpose hall was opened. In the grand gala Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Diana Ross appeared. The first event took place even before the inauguration on 21 November 1983. The basketball team of the UNLV Rebels ran against the Victoria Vikes of the University of Victoria. Mainly, the arena is used by the UNLV Rebels. The multi-purpose hall provides maximum 19,522 places for boxing and wrestling matches and off the field, it is up to the hall ceiling approximately 31.7 meters. For the illumination of the interior metal halide lamps are used with a light intensity of about 3,767 lux.

In 1999, the arena has undergone an extensive renovation inside and out. In 2008, the hall was a video cube with four widescreen LED screens with electronic advertising and scoreboards and a new Schußuhr system. All around the grandstand upper part a new LED advertising board has been installed; it replaced the 1995 installed system.

In addition to the UNLV Rebels was the Thomas & Mack Center home to some sports teams from Las Vegas. The Hockey team the Las Vegas Thunder from the IHL was located from 1993 to 1998 in the hall. Four seasons (2003-2006) remained the Las Vegas Gladiators of the Arena Football League ( AFL). Only one year, the Las Vegas Flash of Roller Hockey International ( RHI, 1994), the Las Vegas dust devils from the Continental Indoor Soccer League ( CISL, 1995) and the Las Vegas Sting (AFL, 1995) at the Thomas & Mack Center were located.

Mid-1980s, the hall served the NBA team the Utah Jazz for some games as an alternative venue. 1984 broke Kareem Abdul- Jabbar in the hall then- NBA - record points by Wilt Chamberlain. The fourth play-off game of the Western Conference in 1992 between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers ( 76:102 ) was moved to Las Vegas because of unrest in Los Angeles. This was due to the acquittal of the four police officers on March 3, 1991 smashing the African American Rodney King after a car chase and resisting arrest with batons over 50 times on the fallen King.

In a series of lectures were, inter alia, Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev visited the Thomas & Mack Center.

Other sporting events

2007 was the NBA All -Star Game in Las Vegas. This was and is so far the only time that an NBA All-Star Game took place in a city without its own NBA team. Have a long tradition rodeo tournaments at the Thomas & Mack Center. The National Finals Rodeo Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association will be held since 1984 and the PBR World Finals Professional Bull Riders since 1999 regularly held.

  • FEI Show Jumping World Cup finals in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009
  • NBA All- Star Game in 2007
  • World championship boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis in 1999
  • National Finals Rodeo, PRCA since 1984
  • PBR World Finals, PBR, since 1999
  • Basketball Americas Championship, August 22 bis September 2, 2007
  • NCAA Basketball Tournament Mountain West Conference 2000-2003, since 2007
  • NCAA Basketball Tournament Big West Conference 1994, 1995
  • NCAA basketball tournament in the Western Athletic Conference in 1997, 1998, 1999
  • Arena Bowl Arena Football League in 2005, 2006
  • WWE No Way Out 2001 2008
  • WWE Vengeance 2005
  • NBA Summer League
  • Basketball Games of the Harlem Globetrotters

Concerts and Shows

Went to concerts, for example, The following artists and music groups.

Among the shows included, inter alia,

  • The ice show Disney on Ice
  • The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
  • The children's music show The Wiggles
  • The Cheetah Girls show,
  • High School Musical Live
  • The American Idol tour.

Cox Pavilion

The Cox Pavilion is a small event hall, which connects directly to the Thomas & Mack Center. It was built in 2001 and serves, inter alia, as a venue for the NCAA women's team in basketball and volleyball UNLV Rebels. It offers depending on the event up to 3,100 seats. The construction costs amounted to 16.6 million U.S. dollars. Five million dollars were covered by the sale of naming rights to the Company Cox Communications. In the building, for example, find small concerts, boxing events, theater and family shows.

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