Basketball
During the NBL season the facility is used by the Melbourne Tigers and is nicknamed 'The Cage'. The Melbourne Tigers made the Centre their home in 2002 due to financial trouble and the high costs of hiring their previous home, Vodafone Arena.
With demand for Tigers tickets generally being more than the SNHC can hold, they have decided to remain at the centre but move 7 of their 14 home games in the 2012-13 NBL season back to their previous home, now called Hisense Arena, in an attempt to take advantage of that arena's 10,500 capacity.
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)