A good story in the Review-Journal this morning commemorates T-Mobile Arena’s 10th anniversary, having opened on April 6, 2016, with local-boy-made-good Jimmy Kimmel introducing the debut act, local-boys-made-good The Killers. Since then, the $375 million 20,000-seat venue has hosted more than 1,000 events, sold more than 12.6 million tickets, “and poured five million fountain drinks and served one million hot dogs and bags of popcorn.” The 111 basketball events, including Pac-12 Conference championships, USA basketball, the Las Vegas Aces’ biggest games, the Harlem Globetrotters, and NBA exhibition and Cup games, could foreshadow T-Mobile becoming the home arena of a Las Vegas NBA expansion team, which might even happen in our lifetimes. The majority owner of the Vegas Golden Knights, Bill Foley, owns a minority share in the arena and would, if necessary, pour $300 million into renovating it for an NBA team.
Source: Las Vegas News