The Key Arena
It’s where the Storm magic happens

When you think of the Key Arena, the Seattle Storm obviously comes to mind at first. After all, the women of the Storm play some serious basketball there for a huge chunk of the year. But the Key Arena is home to even more fun events. In fact, on Instagram it’s described as “Seattle’s premier sports and entertainment venue.”

Sports are a given at the Key Arena. Between the Storm, the Redhawks and the Seahawks, plenty of fans stop by every year. But it also used to be home to the Seattle Thunderbirds—as well as the Supersonics and the Totems. Today it is also home, however, to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association organization, Rat City Rollergirls. That is one team to check out if you haven’t already. WWE Raw also hosts events at the center on occasion. Even the Harlem Globetrotters are known to play there.

There is always something new and exciting happening at the Key Arena. Selena Gomez tickets are on sale for May 13 at the arena. Tickets are on sale for as little as $33.50. Justin Bieber will also be playing at the arena in March. Ellie Goulding, Adele and Rhianna are all also coming to the arena in 2016 for a killer lineup. Janet Jackson was going to make a stop at the Arena recently but had to announce a cancellation upon learning that she would require surgery.

In addition to music and sports, you can always catch additional entertainment at the arena. On Thursday, renowned comedian Amy Schumer will be performing at an 8:00 show. In February, the arena will be hosting the Marvel Universe Live event featuring key characters from the favorite Marvel comics and films. Circuses, ice shows and other events have all been hosted at the Key Arena.

The Key Arena has also hosted charity events in the past, such as a free dental clinic for underserved and vulnerable citizens of the area. Doctors and nurses also provided free medical care and vision health services at the event.

For those who’ve never visited the Key Arena, it is located at 1st Avenue N and 305 Harrison Street.  The arena seats up to 17,000 people. Parking is available at three local garages near the arena, including Mercer Garage, 1st Avenue North Garage and 5th Ave North Garage. Disabled parking is available. The Seattle Center Monorail also runs to the arena, as well as the Fifteen Metro bus and the Bike It! Trail.

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Now that the site has evolved from All Baseball All the Time to multi-sports, I'm looking for my Huskies basketball fix... and, not seeing it here. C'mon, people! All these column inches devoted to a Women's team that plays for a few weeks in Spring and Summer; How 'bout some lurv for the most exciting, highest-potential sports team in the city, the seven freshmen who withstood a tremendous onslaught from Bryce Alford and co to defeat the vaunted (perhaps slightly less-vaunted than back in my day, but still "vaunted") UCLA Bruins, in 2x-overtime, 96-93? How 'bout the deliciously-named Andrew Andrews, leader of the newest "brat pack", who poured in 35 points last night while encouraging his fellow guards to avoid foul trouble and the serial disqualifications experienced by all the front-line players? How 'bout a team that wins against national-caliber competition (Texas, UCLA) and competes against the likes of Gonzaga while playing four (or even five) guards for long stretches? Not to mention that those guards all come from Western Washington- pretty much all from in and around Seattle- except for one who grew up just across the river in NW Oregon? (The big men, by contrast, come from all over the world- California, Florida, Africa, and- next year, believe it or not- New Zealand!) 

If we can have a section of the SSI site devoted to "Basketball"- then, surely we can devote an article or two to the "best follow" in town, these days- the new Cardiac Kids, playing at Hec Ed/AAA/UofW, to not-nearly-full-enough houses! Go check 'em out- tomorrow (Sunday) they're playing the hated Trojans of USC, at home and then, come back to the site and write about them!

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But there was little/no interest in Husky Hoops at SSI besides Jemanji/DrD. Dawgs have a strong core of young players, fun to watch, play very hard every game even if they make too many turnovers. Has been a fun team to follow this season, Pac 12 play will be crazy. Probably a whold bunch of ups and downs along the way to maybe a 10-8 record? That would be my guess, but potential for a little better.

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22 point second-half comebacks don't happen every day. Husky hoops team has one of the biggest hearts I've seen. They have played hard almost every single game, except the first half of UCSB. Bandwagon will be filling up soon, certainly sometime next season when Fultz arrives.

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