{"id":67782,"date":"2025-05-31T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/67782\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:30:22","slug":"mavericks-focused-on-basketball-specific-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/67782\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks focused on basketball-specific arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks CEO, Rick Welts, has said the NBA franchise\u2019s focus is on developing a basketball-dedicated arena, as opposed to the team\u2019s current status at American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have shared American Airlines Center with NHL ice hockey team the Dallas Stars since the venue opened in 2001, but are keen to develop a home of their own. The target is to deliver this before 2031, when the team\u2019s lease deal at American Airlines Center expires.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the City of Irving was reported to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestadiumbusiness.com\/2025\/03\/03\/irving-makes-first-move-for-mavericks-arena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">taken its first step<\/a> towards potentially building a new arena that could house the Mavericks with a 182-acre plot of land identified near to where Texas Stadium used to be located.<\/p>\n<p>The land is majority-owned by an entity linked to Las Vegas Sands Corp, a casino and resort company whose majority shareholder is Miriam Adelson \u2013 who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestadiumbusiness.com\/2024\/01\/03\/mavericks-sale-approved-with-new-arena-on-the-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">acquired<\/a>\u00a0a controlling stake in the Mavericks at the start of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Irving was not referenced as Welts discussed the latest on the Mavericks\u2019 arena plans on the Wall Street Journal\u2019s\u00a0Future of Everything\u00a0program. \u201cWe\u2019re going to build a brand new arena and entertainment district in Dallas to really take us into the next 30 years of our history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s owned by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the Adelson family. They build amazing, beautiful projects in Asia, \u2026 and we\u2019re going to do that in Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welts was hired as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestadiumbusiness.com\/2024\/01\/03\/mavericks-sale-approved-with-new-arena-on-the-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mavericks\u2019 new CEO<\/a> in December having previously worked on the delivery of Chase Center during his time as president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors. He outlined that the team\u2019s arena future will not include the Stars. \u201cWe\u2019ve made the decision not to build it as a hockey facility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re building around a basketball floor versus building around a hockey rink, you\u2019re able to create a much better viewing experience for basketball fans. (It\u2019s) closer with better sidelines. You don\u2019t have to make the compromises, especially at the ends of the court, that you have to if you\u2019re going to try to accommodate both NBA basketball and hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welts has previously suggested that the site selection process is in its early stages, with a decision expected before the end of the year. \u201cWe have had sites suggested by the city, but we\u2019re by no means close,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve asked them to take a look at some additional sites, and the process is going to go on, I would guess, for months. But, no, we\u2019re not like on the 10-yard line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks CEO, Rick Welts, has said the NBA franchise\u2019s focus is on developing a basketball-dedicated arena, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[6071,7,686,149,436,4057,166,6,16234,1106],"class_list":{"0":"post-67782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-american-airlines-center","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallas-stars","13":"tag-dallasmavericks","14":"tag-mavericks","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-arena","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114601513687435504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}