New Orleans Arena

About New Orleans Arena

New Orleans Arena is a former name of Smoothie King Center, used 1999–2013. Smoothie King Center is an NBA arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It opened in 1999. It seats 16,867. Its current tenant is New Orleans Pelicans (NBA), since 2003. By capacity it ranks 29th of 30 current NBA venues, counting only venues with a known capacity. On our ranked lists it ranks 251st oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use.

Appears in

• 251st oldest of 368 stadiums and arenas still in use
• 12th oldest of 37 basketball arenas still in use
• 38th longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 32nd longest single tenancy (23 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas

Venue Information

Address derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Capacity by layout

Seating capacity depends on how the building is laid out for each event. Figures are the best sourced claim per layout.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity, concert layout.