ARCO Arena is an indoor arena located in Sacramento, California, United States. After playing in the make-shift facility called the Original ARCO Arena, this version was completed in 1988, at a cost of $40 million — entirely privately financed. It is home to the NBA's Sacramento Kings and the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. The arena seats 17,317 for basketball, and has 30 luxury suites and 412 club seats. The arena has been noted for its loud character and continual at-capacity crowds, which, combined with wood floors, once made it a tough environment for visiting teams; the Kings only sold out three home games in the 2007-2008 season and averaged 13,500 per game. There was another sports venue with that exact same name, which was known as the original ARCO Arena (1985-1988), where the Kings played their home games for three seasons (1985 to 1988), after moving from Kansas City. It had a capacity of 10,333 seats. In 2006, voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures Q and R [1], leading to the NBA publicly calling for a new arena to be built at another well-known Sacramento facility, Cal Expo, the site of California's state fair. [2] ARCO Arena is located in a once isolated area on the expanding northern outskirts of the city. It was constructed at a cost of just $40 million, the lowest of any venue in the NBA. It is the smallest arena in the NBA by size and second smallest by seating capacity (17,317). Only Orlando's Amway Arena (17,248) has a smaller seating capacity for basketball, and Orlando is building a brand new $480 million dollar arena that broke ground in July 2008 to open in fall 2010, with larger seating capacity and modern luxuries. The namesake sponsor of the arena, energy company ARCO, has had corporate sponsorship since the arena's inception as well as the original ARCO Arena. On March 19, 2007, the Maloof brothers announced a multi-year agreement extending the naming rights of ARCO Arena. [3]

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Notable events

• On October 22nd, 2008 Tina Turner will bring her Tina: Live in Concert Tour to the arena.
• NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2007.
• NHL exhibition and neutral site games, 1993, 1994.
• Ultimate Fighting Championship's UFC 65 on November 18 2006.
• World Wrestling Entertainment events, including two pay-per-views (Royal Rumble 1993 and Judgment Day 2001 ).
• 1995 Billy Graham crusade which brought the fourth largest crowds in arena history.
• 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Final Four. The event drew over 26,000 fans and the championship match drew 13,631 fans, the second highest attendance in NCAA history.
• Game 4 of the 2005 WNBA Finals, in which the Sacramento Monarchs defeated the Connecticut Sun 62-59 to capture their first WNBA Championship.
• John Stockton's last game in the NBA, game 5 of the first round series in the 2003 NBA Playoffs between the Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz.
• LeBron James's first game in the NBA, October 29, 2003 between the Sacramento Kings and Cleveland Cavaliers.

Trivia

• A partially built baseball stadium is located on the northern end of the arena. Financing for the stadium fell through, and eventually was abandoned. The construction of Raley Field dashed hopes of finishing the project, however there have been talks of converting this location to a soccer stadium.
• ARCO Arena set a Guinness World Record for loudest sports roar by reaching over 130 decibels on November 8, 2006 during a Kings game against the Detroit Pistons.
• There is a song called "Arco Arena" on the album Comfort Eagle by Sacramento band Cake. It is an instrumental.
• Bell Biv DeVoe's (BBD) music video for "She's Dope" was filmed at ARCO Arena in 1991.

References

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3. Extension to Naming Rights Agreement