OKC’s Paycom Center ranks amongst highest-rated NBA arenas
The home of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Paycom Center, ranked ninth out of the top 10 National Basketball Association arenas in a recent survey.
The home of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Paycom Center, ranked ninth out of the top 10 National Basketball Association arenas in a recent survey.
The FedExForum, home of the Memphis Grizzlies, has come out as the highest-rated NBA arena, with an average score of 4.57.
Sportsbooks comparison site SportsbooksOnline.com averaged Yelp, Tripadvisor and Google review scores for all 29 NBA Arenas, to find out which is the highest rated by the public.
In cases where average combined scores were tied, the arenas were then ordered by the total number of reviews, from the largest to the smallest number of reviews.
The FedExForum, home of the Memphis Grizzlies, has come out as the highest-rated NBA arena, with an average score of 4.57 from 7,248 total reviews. The venue cost $250 million to construct, and the naming rights were sold to FedEx for $92 million.
In second place is Madison Square Garden, home to the New York Knicks, with an average score of 4.40 from 39,695 total reviews. Madison Square Garden was the most-reviewed arena of all the NBA venues featured in the study.
In third place is the Crypto.com Arena, the shared home of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Crypto.com Arena also scored an average rating of 4.40, from 31,841 reviews.
The Kaseya Center, the home of the Miami Heat, is in fourth place with an average score of 4.40 from 25,298 total reviews. The United Center which had the same average score, and is home to the Chicago Bulls, came just behind in fifth, with 23,422 total reviews.
The Orlando Magic’s home arena, the Amway Center, is in sixth place with an average score of 4.37 from 17,160 total reviews.
The home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, is the NBA arena in seventh, with an average score of 4.37 from 11,678 total reviews.
The Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Paycom Center, and the Smoothie King Center are eighth, ninth and tenth respectively, all with an average review score of 4.37. These arenas are home to the Indiana Pacers, Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans, respectively.
The NBA arena with the lowest overall rating was the Golden 1 Center, home of the Sacramento Kings. It only managed an average rating of 3.83 from 9,945 total reviews.
