STAPLES Center accustomed the celebrated Pollstar-CIC Amphitheatre of the Year award. From this advantageous beginning, it has acutely accustomed itself as a world-class amphitheatre and the Sports and Ball Center of the World.
As the home of four able sports franchises - the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks - STAPLES Center has accurate to be a home cloister advantage for the bounded teams. The Lakers capped-off anniversary of their aboriginal three seasons at STAPLES Center by acceptable after NBA Championships while the Sparks captured back-to-back WNBA Championships in their admission seasons at STAPLES Center. The Kings and Clippers accept both set authorization annal for appearance and sellouts back authoritative STAPLES Center their home.
In accession to the absorbing agenda of sports and ball events, STAPLES Center continues to analyze itself as the host of high-profile contest of civic and all-embracing distinction. These accommodate the 2000 Democratic Civic Convention, the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the 2002 NHL All-Star game, the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, 2009 ISU Apple Figure Skating Championships, nine GRAMMY Awards shows, the avant-garde ESPN X Games, the WTA Tour Championships, and is the home to the NCAA Men's Pacific Life Pac 10 Basketball Championships.
STAPLES Center's aboriginal nine years accept additionally been apparent with performances and appropriate contest that brought all-embracing ability to Los Angeles' sports & ball figure including concerts by Prince, U2, Usher, Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Garth Brooks, Phil Collins, the Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews, Britney Spears, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Janet Jackson, *N Sync, Simon & Garfunkel, Van Halen, Dixie Chicks, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Shania Twain, Peter Gabriel, Ricky Martin, Tina Turner, Luis Miguel, Billy Joel, Lionel Ritchie, The Police, Reba McEntire, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Rod Stewart, Tool, Shakira, Depeche Mode, Cher, Bette Midler, The Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, Eurythmics, Googoosh, Joan Sebastian, Marco Antonio Solis and a New Year's Eve amazing starring The Eagles, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt; apple championship battle including Lennox Lewis vs. Vitali Klitschko for the Apple Heavyweight Championship, "Sugar" Shane Mosley vs. Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Julio Gonzalez and the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards. In addition, the amphitheatre hosted ten sold-out WWE dates, Michael Flatley's Feet of Flames, Stars on Ice, UFC 39 and the Harlem Globetrotters.
