Mark down the Harlem Globetrotters as the first show for sale at the new ShoWare Center at Kent.<\/p>\n
Tickets are on sale to watch the Globetrotters basketball team perform at 7 p.m. Feb. 18, 2009, at the city’s 6,025-seat arena. The events center is slated to open Jan. 2 on West James Street.<\/p>\n
“This is the first event on sale,” said Beth Sylves, director of marketing for SMG, the operator of the arena, in a phone interview Monday.<\/p>\n
Tickets are available at www.kenteventscenter.com or by calling 253-856-6999. The box office at the ShoWare Center remains under construction.<\/p>\n
Tickets cost $18 for end-zone seats, $25 for upper sideline, $45 for VIP and $62 for courtside seats.<\/p>\n
Parking at the ShoWare Center is free.<\/p>\n
The Globetrotters will stop in Kent as part of the team’s “Spinning the Globe” world tour.<\/p>\n
The team performs basketball wizardry combined with hilarious antics, and includes a lot of fan interaction.<\/p>\n
Players to watch include Big Easy Lofton, known as the Clown Prince of Basketball; dribbling-sensation Flight Time Lang; gravity-defying Hi Rise Brown; ball-handling extraordinaire Handles Franklin; fan favorite General Grant; and 7-foot-3 Skyscraper Alleyne.<\/p>\n
“The Harlem Globetrotters are the very definition of family entertainment and great basketball,” said Michael Kenney, senior vice president for the Globetrotters, in a media release. “There is no better time than now to come to the events center and thoroughly enjoy a wonderful family outing and share memories that will last forever.”<\/p>\n
The Globetrotters are in their 83rd season. For more information, go to www.harlemglobetrotters.com.<\/p>\n
Individual tickets for Seattle Thunderbirds hockey games are expected to go on sale within the next week on the events center Web site as well as the T-birds Web site. The Thunderbirds, members of the Western Hockey League, will move in January to the ShoWare Center from KeyArena in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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