Sleep Train Arena
The former home of the Sacramento Kings, where history was made from 1988 to 2016.
Sleep Train Arena (originally ARCO Arena and later Power Balance Pavilion) was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Sacramento, California. Opened in 1988, it was the home of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1988 to 2016. The arena was named for ARCO, a Los Angeles–based independent oil and gas company, later for Sleep Train, a chain of mattress and bed retailers based in Rocklin, California, that at the time of the agreement was a subsidiary of Mattress Firm.
Quick Facts
- Nickname
- The Old Barn; Arco
- Address
- 1 Sports Parkway
- Location
- Sacramento, California
- Groundbreaking
- September 5, 1986
- Opened
- November 8, 1988
- Closed
- March 19, 2022
- Demolished
- August–October 2022
- Cost
- $40 million
Lore & Background
The arena was constructed at a cost of $40 million, the lowest of any NBA venue, and had a seating capacity of 17,317. It hosted the Sacramento Attack of the Arena Football League in 1992, the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs until they folded in 2009, and the Sacramento River Rats of Roller Hockey International. The last Kings home game at Sleep Train Arena was on April 9, 2016, a 114–112 win against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The last ticketed event was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on September 19, 2016. The arena was demolished in October 2022.
Reader's Guide
The arena was located at 1625 North Market, Sacramento, California. It was the smallest arena in the NBA with 30 luxury suites and 412 club seats. The configuration for ice shows and ice hockey ran perpendicular to the basketball court. The arena hosted NCAA men's basketball tournaments, the 2007 NCAA Volleyball Championships, WWE events including the 1993 Royal Rumble, and UFC events such as UFC 65, UFC 73, UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Benavidez 2, and UFC 177.
Did You Know?
- LeBron James made his NBA regular season debut at this arena on October 29, 2003, scoring 25 points for the Cleveland Cavaliers in a loss to the Kings.
- The arena's center-hung scoreboard was upgraded in 1991 to show stats for five players per team, and the original video screens were replaced a decade later with Panasonic Astrovision LED screens.
- The arena was originally named for ARCO, a Los Angeles–based oil and gas company, and later renamed Power Balance Pavilion in 2011 and Sleep Train Arena in 2012.
- The site of the arena was donated to California Northstate University in June 2021 for a medical school and hospital.
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