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 Interactive map of Broadmeadow Basketball Stadium | |
| Former names | Newcastle Sports Entertainment Centre |
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| Location | Corner of Young & Curley Roads,Broadmeadow,New South Wales |
| Coordinates | 32°55′23″S151°43′56″E / 32.92306°S 151.73222°E /-32.92306; 151.73222 |
| Operator | Newcastle Basketball Association |
| Capacity | Basketball /Netball: 2,200 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1969 |
| Tenants | |
| Newcastle Falcons (NBL) (1979–1991) | |
TheBroadmeadow Basketball Stadium, also known as theNewcastle Basketball Stadium, is an indoorbasketball stadium located inNewcastle, New South Wales,Australia and was the original home of theNewcastle Falcons of theNational Basketball League from the origin of the league in 1979 until they moved to the newly builtNewcastle Entertainment Centre in 1992. The stadium is currently the home of the Newcastle Basketball Association and can hold approximately 2,200 spectators.
On 18 July 1982, the stadium hosted the1982 NBL Grand Final where theWest Adelaide Bearcats defeated theGeelong Supercats 80–74. The staging of an NBL game in Newcastle without the Falcons playing was possible due to the NBL's original policy of awarding the then single game Grand Final to a predetermined venue regardless of the teams playing. The stadium also hosted the 1982 semi-finals with West Adelaide defeating theCoburg Giants 94–74 and Geelong defeating theNunawading Spectres 101–59. Both semi-final games were played on 16 July.[1] The Stadium later hosted the2006 ABA National Finals.
On 15 August 2015, the Stadium hosted theLSU Tigers college basketball team in an exhibition game against the Newcastle All-Stars, which LSU won 89–75. A capacity crowd of almost 2,000, the biggest for a game at the Broadmeadow venue in more than 25 years, packed in to see the NBA-bound forwardBen Simmons compete for his new college team. A former Hunters junior, Simmons learnt to play basketball at Broadmeadow when his father,Dave, played and coached in Newcastle for the Falcons and theHunter Pirates.[2]