Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the SuperSonics called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former arena from the Seattle or Tacoma years.
- Final home: KeyArena (1995–2008) — the same building that opened in 1962 as Seattle Center Coliseum, also known on SuperSonics tickets as Seattle Center Coliseum (1967–1994). It was gutted and rebuilt in 1994–95, and later reopened as Climate Pledge Arena, now home of the NHL's Seattle Kraken and the WNBA's Seattle Storm. Basketball capacity as KeyArena was about 17,072.
- Former home: Kingdome (1978–1985), Seattle — a different building from the Coliseum. From 1978 to 1985 the SuperSonics split home games between the two, moving bigger nights to the Kingdome for the larger crowd. That overlap is real, not a straight move from one arena to the other.
- Temporary home: Tacoma Dome (1994–1995), Tacoma — temporary home for the 1994–95 season while the Coliseum was rebuilt as KeyArena. A different building in a different city. Basketball capacity was about 17,000.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1967, the year the SuperSonics joined the NBA as an expansion franchise. Seattle Center Coliseum hosted from that fall; the Kingdome dates overlap the Coliseum on purpose from 1978 to 1985, when bigger games moved to the larger crowd; Tacoma Dome covered 1994–95 while the Coliseum was rebuilt as KeyArena.
If your ticket says Seattle Center Coliseum, that is the same Seattle Center building later called KeyArena—opened in 1962, gutted and rebuilt in 1994–95, and now Climate Pledge Arena. Era SuperSonics tickets print Seattle Center Coliseum or KeyArena, not the later name. The Kingdome and Tacoma Dome are different buildings, not earlier names for KeyArena.
The franchise relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008 and became the Thunder, after a KeyArena lease dispute with the city. SuperSonics nights stay in this archive; Oklahoma City nights belong on the Thunder page. Seattle has had no NBA team since. Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, and Detlef Schrempf led the 1996 Finals run against the 72-win Chicago Bulls.
The Seattle SuperSonics hosted NBA games at Seattle Center Coliseum and later KeyArena in Seattle, WA, USA—the same building—from 1967 to 2008, with overlapping Kingdome nights from 1978 to 1985 and a Tacoma Dome season in 1994–95 while that building was rebuilt. Dates for those nights are anchored in Pacific time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a former arena.