{"id":15033,"date":"2025-07-17T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15033\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:15:13","slug":"okc-reveals-design-for-its-1-billion-new-nba-arena-heres-how-social-media-reacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15033\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC reveals design for its $1 billion new NBA arena: Here&#8217;s how social media reacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, along with the architect behind designing the city&#8217;s new $1 billion arena, unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/okc-thunder-nba-arena-design-revealed-see-more\/85229612007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:conceptual images depicting a glass-encased future home for the OKC Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">conceptual images depicting a glass-encased future home for the OKC Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The design of the new arena was revealed Wednesday, July 16, by architect David Manica\u00a0during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/mayor-holt-expected-unveil-okc-144331705.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 State of the City address;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 State of the City address<\/a>. The sold-out event was held at the Oklahoma City Convention Center, just two blocks from the site where the arena will be built.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The renderings shown at the State of the City show the arena\u2019s west-facing main entrance, aligned with the Myriad Gardens, will also include a long-envisioned Thunder Alley that will provide a fan activation zone designed within the arena\u2019s footprint.<\/p>\n<p>See the design for the new Oklahoma City NBA arenaHow social media reacted to OKC&#8217;s new arena designs<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Steve Lackmeyer<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/okc-reveals-1-billion-arena-design-how-social-media-is-reacting\/85244590007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:OKC reveals $1 billion arena design: How social media is reacting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">OKC reveals $1 billion arena design: How social media is reacting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, along with the architect behind designing the city&#8217;s new $1 billion arena, unveiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[14359,355,14358,12205,14360,99],"class_list":["post-15033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-david-holt","tag-nba","tag-okc-thunder","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-shai","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}