Daily News | If Sixers leave Wells Fargo Center for new arena, Philly will be an outlier among sports towns
If the Sixers indeed move forward with their plan to relocate their arena to 10th and Market after calling the Wells Fargo Center home since it was opened in 1996, they would be making Philadelphia somewhat of an anomaly among American sports cities.the Phillies’ failed attempt to relocate to Center City back in 2000
— plenty of other markets have gorgeous state-of-the-art facilities right in the heart of their cities. We’re talking about the fact that they would become the only city in North America to have NBA and NHL franchises that play in separate buildings.
There are 14 cities with both NBA and NHL franchises. Half keep it simple, with Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. all using one arena that is shared by both teams. The same can be said for half of New York and Los Angeles, with the Knicks and Rangers sharing Madison Square Garden and the Lakers, Clippers and Kings all sharing Crypto.com Arena .In the L.A.
Then there’s the San Francisco Bay Area, which is home to the NBA’s Warriors and the NHL’s Sharks. While both fanbases greatly overlap, the team’s play in different arenas, with the Warriors at the new Chase Center in San Francisco and the Sharks stuck in the soon-to-be 30-year-old SAP Center in San Jose.
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