Barclays Center Tickets

The Barclays Center is an estimated $1 billion sports arena in Brooklyn, New York, and is the home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, who previously played in Newark, New Jersey. The arena is part of a nearly $5 billion business and residential complex located at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, near the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and within walking distance of Park Slope and Fort Greene neighborhoods. The Barclays Center groundbreaking took place on March 11, 2010 and the arena opened to the public on September 28, 2012 with a Jay-Z concert. The Brooklyn Nets mark the return of major league sports to Brooklyn since the Brookly Dodgers departed to Los Angeles in 1957. Designed by architectural firm Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects, the arena will host concerts, conventions and other sporting events along with the Brooklyn Nets.

Developer Forest City Ratner acquired the Nets in 2004 and is the lead developer on the project. Located near the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway station and the Long Island rail Road’s Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, it is one of the most transit-accessible locations in the city with 11 different subway lines ending at the Barclays Center. London-based Barclays plc. paid close to $200 million for the naming rights to the stadium for the next 20 years. Three articulated bands make up the external shape of the arena, and a glass curtain wall covered by a latticework of 12,000 steel panels is meant to evoke Brooklyn’s brownstones. An Oculus extends over a 5,660-square-foot section of the plaza outside the main entrance and a display screen loops around the inside of the structure. A near-40,000-square-foot entrance plaza features a Transit Connection that connects with the Atlantic Avenue subway station and is the centerpiece of the plaza. The scoreboard will be visible from the plaza, as the basketball court is situated below ground level. The arena is also pursuing LEED Silver certification.

Barclays Center Hosts 2013 Atlantic 10 Basketball Tournament

The Barclays Center will host the 2013 Atlantic 10 basketball tournament and tickets will be going fast. You don’t want to miss out so move fast to buy tickets for the Atlantic 10 Tournament from Thursday, March 14 - Sunday, March 17 because they go fast. The Atlantic 10 has some great teams like the Saint Bonaventure, Temple Owls and the Dayton but anyone could come out on top. Be there at the Barclays Center for the 2013 Atlantic 10 Basketball Tournament in Brooklyn and get your tickets today!

Major Barclays Center Events

Nets minority owner, rapper Jay-Z, opened the Barclays Center by performing a series of concerts. Other major events that happened during the Barclays's Center innaugural season included Barbra Streisand in concert, Justin Bieber first foray into Brooklyn and Rush. The New York Islanders play games at the Barclays Center and may become a tenant of the arena. Boxing will make its’ debut at the Barclays Center on October 20, when Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions is expected to feature Brooklyn native Paulie Malignaggi on the card. Beginning in 2013, the Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament will take place at the Barclays Center. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli made his Brooklyn debut on December 5, 2012 at the Barclays Center. Barclays Center will also be the new home for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice and Champions on Ice. The Barclays Center’s first Disney Ice was "100 Years of Magic."