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Barclays Center (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i z / BAR-kleez) [9] is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. [10]
On January 23, 2004, developer Bruce Ratner announced that he had purchased the National Basketball Association's Nets franchise (then known as the New Jersey Nets) and started on his plan to move the Nets to the 18,000-seat Barclays Center as part of the Atlantic Yards development at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. After years of delays caused ...
Other information included in this list are arena locations, seating capacities, years opened, and in use. Intuit Dome is the newest arena in the NBA, which opened in August 2024. The United Center has the highest capacity of any current NBA arena at 20,917.
In October 2012, the Islanders announced that they would re-locate to Barclays Center in Brooklyn once their lease of the Coliseum expired after the 2014–15 season. [17] Meanwhile, a group led by Bruce Ratner (who had developed Barclays Center) secured an $89 million bid to renovate the Coliseum, aiming to host a minor hockey team as its main ...
The Barclays Center Classic is an annual early season college basketball tournament that was inaugurated in 2012. Each of the eight schools plays four games, with the bracketed portion of the tournament concluding at the tournament's namesake Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York .
The team's main venue moved from Madison Square Garden to Westchester County Center after the 2017 season, and then to Barclays Center after the 2019 season. During a massive renovation project at the Garden between 2011 and 2013, the Liberty temporarily played their home games at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The team were the ...
The Barclays Center Fact Sheet boasts that the arena has "one of the most intimate seating configurations ever designed into a modern multipurpose sports arena with unparalleled sight lines."
The following is a list of indoor arenas which are currently the home of a professional, semi-professional, or national basketball team (page is in process of being updated). They are ordered by capacity , which is the maximum number of spectators the arena can accommodate for basketball.