Las Vegas
Thomas & Mack Center
Thomas & Mack Center is an arena on the campus of the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Its primary tenants are the UNLV men's
basketball team and the
Las Vegas Gladiators of the
Arena Football League; it also hosts the National Finals Rodeo annually.
The facility also hosted the Las Vegas Thunder of the now defunct
International Hockey League. The facility also hosts numerous other
events, such as concerts, conventions, boxing cards, and professional
wrestling shows. For ring events, the capacity is
19,522; for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.
The facility is named after two prominent Nevada bankers, E. Parry Thomas and
Jerome Mack, who donated the original funds for the feasibility and land
studies.
In 2001, a
smaller arena,
Cox
Pavilion, was added to the complex; the two arenas are directly connected.
Cox Pavilion is used for smaller events; its main tenants are the UNLV women's
basketball and volleyball programs.
In 2005, the arena hosted the Arena Football League's ArenaBowl. It was the
first of a three-year hosting tenure. It will also host the 2007 NBA All-Star
Game, marking the first time that this game will be held in a city without an
NBA franchise. The arena had been an alternate home for the Utah Jazz in the
mid-1980's, and was where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke Wilt Chamberlain's record
for points in a career in 1984. The 1997-99 Western Athletic Conference and
2000-03 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournaments were held there as
well.
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