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Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena
Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators....
 in Downtown
Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolis area....
 Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Convention Center

The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3....
 complex. It is suitable for large indoor events, including basketball, ice hockey and arena football, and concerts. When configured for basketball, Staples Center has a capacity of 18,997 spectators; it holds fewer people when the arena is configured for other sports.






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Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena
Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators....
 in Downtown
Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolis area....
 Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Convention Center

The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3....
 complex. It is suitable for large indoor events, including basketball, ice hockey and arena football, and concerts. When configured for basketball, Staples Center has a capacity of 18,997 spectators; it holds fewer people when the arena is configured for other sports. Staples Center has a capacity of 20,000 when it hosts concerts and boxing matches.

Currently owned and operated by the L.A. Arena Company and Anschutz Entertainment Group
Anschutz Entertainment Group

The Anschutz Entertainment Group is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. The company owns or operates several major entertainment/sporting venues, including Staples Center and the Home Depot Center and beginning in fall 2007, the XL Center and Rentschler Field....
, the arena serves as the home of two NBA
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
 franchises, the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
 and the Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the National Basketball Association and are members of the NBA Western Conference's Pacific Division ....
, and the Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings

The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
 of the National Hockey League
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
 (NHL). Other major tenants include the Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks

The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, the Sparks are one of the eight original WNBA teams....
 of the Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
 (WNBA) as well as the Los Angeles Avengers
Los Angeles Avengers

The Los Angeles Avengers is an Arena Football League team based in Los Angeles, California and they began play as a 2000 expansion team....
 of the Arena Football League
Arena Football League

The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
 (AFL).

Construction broke ground in 1998 and the Staples Center was opened a year later. It was financed privately at a cost of $
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
375 Million and is named for the office-supply company Staples, Inc.
Staples, Inc.

Staples, Inc. is the world's largest office supply retail store chain, with over 2,000 stores worldwide in 27 countries. The company has catalog and delivery businesses and serves customers in Argentina , Austria, Brazil , Canada , China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom and the United States....
, which was one of the center's corporate sponsors that paid for naming rights
Naming rights

Naming rights are the right to name a piece of property, either tangible property or an event, usually granted in exchange for financial considerations....
.

Description

Outside the arena are statues of Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Douglas Gretzky, Order of Canada is a retired Canada professional ice hockey player. He is the current part-owner, head of hockey operations, and coach of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League ....
 and Magic Johnson
Magic Johnson

Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball point guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association ....
, although both sports legends played at the Great Western Forum
The Forum (Inglewood, California)

The Forum, known for a time as the Great Western Forum, is an list of indoor arenas in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, California....
, where the Kings, Lakers and Sparks previously played. A third statue of boxer Oscar De La Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya — nicknamed "The Golden Boy" — is an United States boxing and promoter who won a List of Olympic medalists in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
 was unveiled outside Staples Center on December 1, 2008.

Structure and architecture

Staples Center measures of total space, with a by arena floor. It stands tall.. The arena seats up to 20,000 for concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s, 18,997 for basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, and 18,118 for hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
 and arena football
Arena football

Arena football is a sport based upon American football. It is played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game....
. Two-thirds of the arena's seating, including 2,500 club seats, are in the lower bowl. There are also 160 luxury suites, including 15 event suites, on three levels between the lower and upper bowls. The arena's attendance record is held by the fight between World WBA
World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title, at the professional level....
 Welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 Champion, Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito in Torrance, California Is a Mexican American boxer and is a former World Boxing Association Welterweight Champion. He is also a former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization Welterweight champion....
 and Shane Mosley
Shane Mosley

"Sugar" Shane Mosley is a boxing from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current World_Boxing_Association#Current_WBA_world_title_holders....
 with a crowd of 20,820 set on January 25, 2009.

History

Staples Center opened on October 17 1999, with a Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
 and the E Street Band concert as its inaugural event. It is home to the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
 and Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the National Basketball Association and are members of the NBA Western Conference's Pacific Division ....
 of the NBA
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
, the Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings

The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
 of the NHL
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
, the Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks

The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, the Sparks are one of the eight original WNBA teams....
 of the WNBA
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
, and the Los Angeles Avengers
Los Angeles Avengers

The Los Angeles Avengers is an Arena Football League team based in Los Angeles, California and they began play as a 2000 expansion team....
 of the AFL
Arena Football League

The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
. It is the only arena that is home to five professional sports franchises.

Staples Center was named New Major Concert Venue (2000) and Arena of the Year (2000 and 2001) by Pollstar Magazine and has been nominated each year since its 1999 opening.

The arena is host to 250 events and nearly 4,000,000 visitors a year. Since its opening day, Staples Center has hosted the 2000 Democratic National Convention
2000 Democratic National Convention

The 2000 National Convention of the USA Democratic Party nominated Vice President of the United States Al Gore for President of the United States and Connecticut Joe Lieberman as his Vice President....
, the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
United States Figure Skating Championships

The United States Figure Skating Championships is figure skating competition held annually to crown the list of national championships in figure skating of the United States....
, the 52nd NHL All-Star game
52nd National Hockey League All-Star Game

The 52nd National Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 2, 2002, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The final score was World 8, North America 5....
, the 2004 NBA All-Star Game
2004 NBA All-Star Game

The 2003-04 NBA season National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 15, 2004 in front of an attendance of 19,662 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, California, home of the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers....
, the Pac-10 Basketball Finals since 2002, the WTA Tour Championships
WTA Tour Championships

The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour....
 from 2002 to 2005, the first Latin Grammy Awards
Latin Grammy Awards

The Latin Grammy Awards were launched in 2000 with a telecast aired on CBS. It was the first primarily Spanish language prime-time program carried on an English-language television network....
 in 2000, the annual Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
s since 2000 with the exception of 2003, the Summer X Games
X Games

The X Games is an annual event with a focus on Extreme sport. The Winter X Games are held in January or February and the Summer X Games are usually held in August, both in the United States....
 indoor competitions since 2003, the UFC 60
UFC 60

UFC 60: Hughes vs. Gracie was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on May 27, 2006. The event took place at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California and was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States and Canada....
 pay per view event, as well as numerous Concert
Concert

A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
s and HBO Championship Boxing
HBO Boxing

HBO World Championship Boxing is a sports TV series, premiering in January 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events in the last three decades....
 matches. In addition to hosting WrestleMania 21
WrestleMania 21

WrestleMania 21 was the twenty-first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on April 3, 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles....
, which held the venue's previous attendance record of 20,193, Staples Center has also hosted, Unforgiven 2002
WWE Unforgiven

Unforgiven is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment, which has been held in September since the 1999 edition....
, Judgment Day 2004
WWE Judgment Day

Judgment Day is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. The first edition of Judgment Day was in October 1998 as an In Your House event....
, and No Way Out 2007
No Way Out (2007)

No Way Out was the ninth annual WWE No Way Out pay-per-view List of WWE pay-per-view events produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on February 18, 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and was the final WWE Brand Extension pay-per-view before all pay-per-view events became tri-branded....
 as well as other World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated arts and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales....
 events.

Future developments

Staples Center is only a part of a much larger development by Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) adjoining Staples Center and the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles Convention Center

The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3....
. The development, known as L.A. Live, broke ground on September 15, 2005. L.A. Live is designed to offer entertainment, retail and residential programming in the downtown Los Angeles area.

See also

  • L.A. Live
  • Los Angeles Convention Center
    Los Angeles Convention Center

    The Los Angeles Convention Center is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and is best known to video games fans as host to E3....


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