Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Grizzlies called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names GM Place from the Vancouver years.
- Final home: General Motors Place (1995–2001), Vancouver, BC — the only Vancouver Grizzlies home. Basketball capacity was 19,193. The last home game was April 14, 2001, against Houston. The building opened September 21, 1995, and was renamed Rogers Arena on July 6, 2010; it remains home of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks.
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1995, the year the Grizzlies joined the NBA as an expansion franchise alongside Toronto. General Motors Place hosted every Vancouver home game through 2001.
If your ticket says GM Place or General Motors Place, that is the same downtown Vancouver building later called Rogers Arena. Era Grizzlies tickets print GM Place, not the later name. There is no earlier Vancouver NBA arena, and no later one.
The Grizzlies arrived in 1995 with the Toronto Raptors as the NBA's first two Canadian expansion clubs. They played all six Vancouver seasons at General Motors Place, never made the playoffs, and never won more than 23 games—their best record was 23–59 in 2000–01. Bryant Reeves, taken sixth in the 1995 draft, was the face of those years. The franchise relocated to Memphis after 2000–01. Vancouver nights stay in this archive; Memphis nights belong on the Memphis Grizzlies page.
The first home game at GM Place was November 5, 1995: Vancouver beat Minnesota 100–98 in overtime, a 19,193 sellout, on Chris King's tip-in at the buzzer. After winning that night—and a road opener in Portland two nights earlier—the club lost 19 straight, then a 23-game stretch from February 16 to April 2, 1996. The 1996–97 team finished 14–68. In 1999 Vancouver drafted Steve Francis second overall; he refused to play there and was traded to Houston. The last home game was April 14, 2001, a 95–100 loss to Houston in front of 18,571. The last game as the Vancouver Grizzlies was a 95–81 win at Golden State on April 18. The NBA approved the move to Memphis on July 3, 2001.
The Vancouver Grizzlies hosted NBA games at General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from 1995 to 2001. Dates for those nights are anchored in Pacific time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names that arena.