It’s Official: Dollar Loan Center In Henderson New Home For NBA G League Ignite Team
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley’s arena that he manages in Henderson officially has a new tenant.
The NBA G League Ignite team will play its home games at The Dollar Loan Center arena in the Green Valley area of Henderson.
Foley’s sports and entertainment entity runs the 6,000-seat arena, which also hosts Foley’s Henderson Silver Knights minor league hockey team and his Vegas Knight Hawks team of the Indoor Football League. The arena also plays host to the Big West college basketball tournament in March. Technically, the city of Henderson owns the arena, but Foley’s sports group runs the venue.
The move to Henderson marks the beginning of a multi-year partnership between the NBA G League, Foley Entertainment Group and the City of Henderson. After training in Walnut Creek, Calif. and playing in Las Vegas in 2021-22, Ignite will relocate to Henderson full-time.
The announcement that the Ignite will begin playing its home games at The Dollar Loan Center in 2022-23 was done by NBA G League President Shareef Abdur-Rahim Friday. LVSportsBiz.com reported this news July 5.
Abdur-Rahim said: “With avid sports fans in the Las Vegas area who have quickly embraced their hockey, football and WNBA teams, we can’t wait for NBA G League Ignite to showcase its future NBA stars and exciting brand of basketball.”
The G League Ignite, not affiliated with any NBA team, has had three top 10 NBA Draft picks in the last two seasons. The G League is the NBA’s minor leagues for players who don’t want to play in college. One of the former Ignite players, Jaden Hardy, was a Coronado High School product who was drafted 37th in the recent draft by the KIngs. Sacramento then traded him to the Dallas Mavericks. Hardy is playing in the NBA Summer League taking place in Las Vegas July 7-17.
