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One other high school-owned facility has a basketball capacity that would place it in this list—the Round Valley Ensphere, at Round Valley High School in Eagar, Arizona. Although it has a maximum capacity of 9,200 for court sports, it is not included in this list because it is a domed football stadium. [6]
Fans of Seymour basketball, Seymour high school and a local newspaper hired a statistician who estimated new castle at a maximum capacity of about 7500 which effectively put the long time largest gym New castle Chrystler High School Fieldhouse into the spot of the 3rd largest gym in history.
In the 1955 and 1956 state championship games at Butler Fieldhouse, Oscar Robertson and his teammates at Indianapolis's Crispus Attucks High School won back-to-back state championships, a first time for an all-black high school team. [24] Crispus Attucks High School also used the Butler Fieldhouse as its home gym in the 1950s. [17]
One of those games in the early 2000s hosted basketball royalty, as Sabol said NBA legends Shaquille O'Neal and Dwayne Wade snuck into the gym to see a young LeBron James play a regional game.
When the field house was opened on November 24, 1954, the facility was the largest high school gym in the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In its initial season of operation, the gym generated $57,500 in revenue from ticket sales, concessions and parking fees from the 134,000 fans who attended high school games.
The following list includes all current and former arenas used by current and defunct teams playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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.
Bob Thompson, former basketball player at Waverly and Ohio State, gives a speech during the dedication of Waverly's Downtown Gym basketball court to his former coach CD Hawhee in a ceremony on Dec ...
The court is the same one where Jimmy Chitwood played. The locker room is exactly as it was when Norman Dale coached. About 35 miles east of Indianapolis is the little town of Knightstown, which ...