NBA: 5 arenas that need to be torn down right now

Which NBA arena is the absolute worst abomination that offends every single sense known to mankind?

Professional sports teams pride themselves on how state-of-the-art their stadiums are, but not every team has a spiffy place to call home. NBA teams have the most pressure to renovate, rebuild and produce new arenas as we’ve seen teams pack up and move if they can’t get a new stadium built in the place they call home.

This is the reason — or at least the main reason we’ve been led to believe — that the Seattle Sonics are now the Oklahoma City Thunder. If you can’t get a new stadium built, you’re probably going to watch your favorite hometown team leave and become someone else’s hometown team.

It sucks, but it’s just the way things are in sports. This is true in all sports, as Los Angeles — one of the largest markets in the world — doesn’t have an NFL team because it doesn’t have a stadium. That’s how powerful the need for a good stadium is, and it’s something that more than a few NBA teams need to be mindful of.

Not everyone who has a crappy stadium is in danger of being relocated, but good teams with bad stadiums is as bad a look as a bad team with a reflectively bad stadium.

Here’s a look at the absolute worst arenas in the NBA that need to be torn down and rebuilt sooner rather than later.

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