Yes it is now called Climate Pledge Arena. I'm not sure why exactly. It was built for the 1962 Worlds Fair and was called the Seattle Center Coliseum. I have gone to many basketball games, circuses, and concerts there. Then I moved away and when I came back it was called Key Arena, with a sponsor of Key Bank. Then the Seattle Sonics left over a dispute with upgrades to the Arena. Actually that is not true. Starbucks CEO owned the team and sold it to some sheister from Oklahoma City. Everyone knew the Sonics were gone. The sheister lied saying he would keep the team in Seatlle but threw away all the good players so he could say there was not a good market in Seattle and they moved to Ok city as Thunder. I still have no respect for that guy. If he had been upfront, then ok.
Anyway, I digress. The arena was in great disrepair and not a great place for visiting teams etc. I think Seattle had been burned out of providing playgrounds for pro sports leagues so the people would not vote the okidoki to fund repairs. So I think some private investors did it and because we are so green around here, they decided to call it Climate Pledge Arena. There is no sponsor called Climate Pledge as far as I know. Probably the first arena in the country, or world perhaps, named for the Green movement.
Anyway, now that the history lesson is over, I'm glad you had a good time watching the game and meeting up with your nephew. Sounds like it was a good game. Kracken - What a dumb name!! I suppose at the beginning they had Liam Neeson's "Release the Kracken!!" from the Titan movie.
mspart
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