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File:EnergySolutionsArenalogo.jpg![]() EnergySolutions Arena in 2006; the arena's former Delta Center sign is slightly visible beneath the sheet covering it | |
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Former names | Delta Center (1991–2006) Salt Lake Ice Center (2002 Winter Olympics) |
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Location | 301 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 |
Coordinates | 40°46′6″N 111°54′4″W / 40.76833°N 111.90111°W |
Owner | Jazz Basketball Investors, Inc. |
Operator | Jazz Basketball Investors, Inc. |
Capacity | Basketball: 19,911 Ice hockey / Ice Floor: 14,000 Concert in the round: 20,000 End stage concert: 15,000 Dirt show: 15,000 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | May 22, 1990 |
Opened | October 4, 1991 |
Construction cost | 93 million USD |
Architect | FFKR Architecture |
Tenants | |
Utah Jazz (NBA) (1991–present) Utah Blaze (AFL) (2006–2008) Utah Starzz (WNBA) (1997–2002) Utah Grizzlies (IHL) (1995–1997) Salt Lake Golden Eagles (IHL) (1991–1994) 2002 Winter Olympics (figure skating and short track speed skating venue) |
The EnergySolutions Arena is an indoor arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States owned by Jazz Basketball Investors, Inc., the estate of Larry H. Miller. The arena seats 19,911 for basketball, has 56 luxury suites, and 668 club seats. Opened in 1991, the arena was known as the Delta Center until EnergySolutions purchased the naming rights after Delta Air Lines declined to renew their 15 year contact, effective November 20, 2006. The arena is the home of the NBA's Utah Jazz.
From 2006 to 2008, the arena was the home of the Arena Football League's Utah Blaze. It was also home to the figure skating and short track speed skating competitions of the 2002 Winter Olympics (during the Olympics, the arena was referred to as the Salt Lake Ice Center).
History
The arena was originally imagined as 20,000-seat home for the Utah Jazz and Salt Lake Golden Eagles to replace the since-demolished Salt Palace arena, which had 12,616 seats.[1] Under the leadership and private financing of Utah businessman Larry H. Miller, ground was broken on May 22, 1990, and it was completed on October 4, 1991 in time for late-October basketball games, at a cost of $93 million.[2]
The first game played in the arena was a Golden Eagles match against the Peoria Rivermen on October 16, 1991, which the home team lost 4-2.[3] The Eagles had also played the inaugural game in the Salt Palace when it opened on October 10, 1969.[4] The Eagles, which were purchased by Miller in 1990, lost nearly a million dollars annually and would not long play in the Delta Center.
The first basketball game played in the arena was a Jazz pre-season loss against Patrick Ewing and the New York Knicks, 101–95.[5] In addition to sports, the arena was intended to host large music concerts. On October 24, 1991, Oingo Boingo became the first headlining act to rock the Delta Center.[6]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Delta-center.jpg/250px-Delta-center.jpg)
The 1993-95 Western Athletic Conference men's basketball tournaments were held at the facility, as was the 1993 NBA All-Star Game. The Delta Center also hosted games of the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals between the Jazz and Chicago Bulls.
The arena's roof was damaged by severe winds associated with the Salt Lake City Tornado of August 11, 1999, costing $3,757,000 to repair.[7]
The facility played host to the 1999 US Figure Skating Championships. The arena was also home to the figure skating and short track speed skating competitions of the 2002 Winter Olympics.[8]
In addition to the Utah Jazz and Blaze, the arena has also been the home of the WNBA's Utah Starzz from 1997 to 2002, the Salt Lake Golden Eagles from 1991 to 1994, and the Utah Grizzlies from 1995 to 1997, both of the International Hockey League. Notably, on June 8, 1996, the Delta Center hosted the largest crowd in the history of American minor league hockey: 17,381 fans attended Game 4 of the 1996 Turner Cup Finals. The Grizzlies won 3-2 in overtime, completing a four-game sweep of the Orlando Solar Bears and earning the IHL championship in their first season in Utah.
In 2002, the arena upgraded its super system with ribbon display technology and auxiliary scoreboards from Brookings, South Dakota-based Daktronics. [9]
The movie Legally Blonde 2 was partially filmed in the arena.
Dan Roberts serves as the official EnergySolutions Arena public address voice for the Jazz. He has been the Jazz's home game announcer since before the arena was built.[10]
The Energy Solutions Arena is well known for being one of the hardest places to play for visiting teams in the NBA. According to an NBA Players Poll taken by Sports Illustrated on February 11th, 2008, the ESA is considered "the most intimidating arena in the NBA" with 20% of the vote made up of 240 current NBA players.[11]. Many commentators referred to the arena as the "Decibel Center", a play on the name "Delta Center". During game 4 of the 1997 NBA Finals, a decibel meter installed at floor level had readings of over 110 decibels, close to the noise generated by a jet takeoff. Also, during the 1997 NBA Finals, Hannah Storm of NBC called the then-named Delta Center "One of the loudest places in sports"[12]
EnergySolutions Arena was the site of the West regional semifinals ("Sweet Sixteen") and championship ("Elite Eight") in the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Renaming
The first renaming of the arena happened during the Salt Lake City Olympics, due to IOC policies about having corporate sponsorship for venue. The arena had to be renamed Salt Lake Ice Center during the games.
After Delta Air Lines declined to renew their 15-year naming rights contract, which expired on September 30, 2006, the stadium's owner, Larry H. Miller, opted to sell naming rights to EnergySolutions, a low-level nuclear waste disposal company headquartered in Salt Lake City.[13] The new name was unveiled November 20, prior to the Jazz home game against the Toronto Raptors. Two stickers were placed on the court, covering up the arena's old name with the new one.[14] The EnergySolutions temporary logos were replaced with official EnergySolutions logos on the court, sometime between the December 16, 2006 game vs the Sacramento Kings and the 12-26-06 game vs the Los Angeles Clippers.
Initial fan reactions to the new name were predominantly negative. Early nicknames for the arena included "the Dump", a jab at EnergySolutions' radioactive and hazardous waste disposal operations.[15] Other suggestions included the Glow Dome, Radium Stadium, the Isotope, ChernoBowl, JazzMat (short for Jazzardous Materials), the Big Bang, the Tox Box, the Power House, the Hot Spot, Plutonium Palace, the Fallout Shelter, the Melta Center, and Energy Pollutions Arena.[16] Many Salt Lake City residents still refer to it as the Delta Center.[citation needed]
John Stockton and Karl Malone statues
Outside the arena are statues of two players regarded as among the greatest in the history of the Jazz. The John Stockton statue was unveiled on March 30, 2005. The Karl Malone statue was unveiled on March 23, 2006. The Jazz played games on each of those nights but both games were lost.
Larry H. Miller Court
On April 15, 2010, over a year after the death of Jazz owner Larry H. Miller, the Jazz basketball court was named in his honor. The official name is Larry H. Miller Court at Energy Solutions Arena.
Notable events
Sports
- 1993 NBA All-Star Game
- 1993 US Gymnastics Championships
- Site of 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals, most notably Game 5 in the 1997 series, when Michael Jordan scored 38 points, including the game-winning 3-pointer, despite suffering from a stomach ailment. It was also here where Jordan made his final shot as a Chicago Bull, a controversial game-winning basket (some say Jordan pushed off Bryon Russell before the shot and was not called for a foul), to help the Bulls clinch the 1998 series in Game 6.
- 1999 US Figure Skating Championships
- PBR Bud Light Cup event in 1999 and 2000
- The figure skating and short track speed skating competitions were held there during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- The Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight rounds of the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Concerts
- Metallica - February 10 & June 4, 1992, with Metal Church, January 2, 1997 & November 3, 2008, with Down & The Sword
- Rush - May 29, 1992, with Primus, May 20, 1997 & August 23, 2002
- KISS - December 8, 1992 & September 5, 1996
- Guns N' Roses - April 7, 1993
- Aerosmith - August 10, 1993, April 18, 1998, May 17, 1999, January 7, 2002, with Fuel & October 22, 2003, with KISS & Saliva
- Janet Jackson - April 26-27, 1994 & October 12, 2001
- Celine Dion - June 11, 1994 & February 22, 2009
- Phil Collins - July 28, 1994
- The Grateful Dead - February 19-21, 1995
- Van Halen - September 19, 1995 & August 3, 2004
- Page & Plant - October 10, 1995
- Tina Turner - May 29, 1997, with Cyndi Lauper & May 15, 2000, with Lionel Richie
- The Rolling Stones - February 2, 1999 & November 22, 2005 (They also performed a two song performance via satellite for the 2005 American Music Awards, with an introduction by Nicole Richie.)
- Bob Dylan - June 9, 1999, with Paul Simon
- Cher - January 28, 2000, August 14, 2002 & January 31, 2005
- Britney Spears - August 14, 2000, with A-Teens, November 13, 2001 & April 14, 2009
- Bon Jovi - April 28, 2001 & April 5, 2003
- The Backstreet Boys - October 5, 2001 & June 23, 2010
- U2 - November 9, 2001, with Garbage & December 17, 2005
- American Idol Live! - August 23, 2003, July 14, 2004, August 26, 2005 & July 31, 2007
- Shania Twain - December 2, 2003
- Kelly Clarkson - March 26, 2004, with Clay Aiken & October 10, 2008, with Reba McEntire & Melissa Peterman
- Hilary Duff - August 25, 2004
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers - August 16, 2006
- The Blue Man Group - October 30, 2006 & February 2, 2008
- The Who - November 13, 2006, with The Pretenders
- Josh Groban - August 28, 2007 (His live concert DVD, Awake Live was filmed.)
- Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus - October 26-27, 2007, with The Jonas Brothers (one of them was filmed and released in 2008, as Disney Digital 3D, in select theaters, for a limited run worldwide and on DVD.) & September 29, 2009, with Metro Station
- Neil Diamond - December 19, 2008
- Taylor Swift - May 26, 2009
- Green Day - August 16, 2009, with Franz Ferdinand
- Billy Joel - February 19, 2010
- Nickelback - October 20, 2010
Other events
- 1999 Salt Lake City tornado
- Auditions for the eighth season of American Idol on July 29, 2008.[17]
References
- ^ Hemphill, Lex (1991-09-29). "Will Delta Center Pack in the Fans? Ticket Sales Say Yes". Salt Lake Tribune. p. A6.
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (1991-10-21). "Truss erection system scores at Utah arena". Engineering News-Record vol. 226. p. 16.
- ^ Kragthorpe, Kurt (1991-10-17). "Eagles Disappoint". Salt Lake Tribune. p. C1.
- ^ Rosetta, Dick (1991-10-17). "Golden Eagles Jazz up Delta Center". Salt Lake Tribune. p. C1.
- ^ Luhm, Steve (1991-10-24). "Knicks win to spoil Jazz debut". Salt Lake Tribune. p. D1.
- ^ Butters, Lori (1991-10-24). "Elfman makes Delta Center roll in rock-concert debut". Salt Lake Tribune. p. D1.
- ^ Woolf, Jim (2000-08-10). "A REAL TWISTER: 1 Year Later: A Whirlwind of Memories; Salt Lake City recalls devastating tornado that changed lives forever". Salt Lake Tribune.
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(help) - ^ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 93-4.
- ^ "Daktronics Photo Gallery: EnergySolutions Arena".
- ^ Fricks, Patti T (1991-05-11). "Palace Earsplitting But Not Deafening". Salt Lake Tribune. p. A1.
- ^ "Si Players Nba Poll". CNN. February 11, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vWHDxG0YLk
- ^ "Delta Center's out, EnergySolutions Arena is in". Salt Lake Tribune. 2006-11-20.; see also Cortez, Marjorie (2006-11-21). "EnergySolutions Arena? It's a mouthful". Deseret Morning News.
- ^ Koreen, Mike (2006-11-21). "Utah understands Hoffa". Toronto Sun.
- ^ Gorrell, Mike (2006-11-21). "Arena's new name a winner, Miller says". Salt Lake Tribune.
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (2006-11-29). "In Utah, the Half-Life of Arena Naming Rights". New York Times.
- ^ Who Will Be The Next Singing Superstar? - American Idol News
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Preceded by | Home of the Utah Jazz 1991 – present |
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Preceded by | Host of the NBA All-Star Game 1993 |
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