Globetrotters coming to Kent in February
Published 2:51 pm Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Mark down the Harlem Globetrotters as the first show for sale at the new ShoWare Center at Kent.
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.
“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.
Tickets are available at www.kenteventscenter.com or by calling 253-856-6999. The box office at the ShoWare Center remains under construction.
Tickets cost $18 for end-zone seats, $25 for upper sideline, $45 for VIP and $62 for courtside seats.
Parking at the ShoWare Center is free.
The Globetrotters will stop in Kent as part of the team’s “Spinning the Globe” world tour.
The team performs basketball wizardry combined with hilarious antics, and includes a lot of fan interaction.
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.
“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.”
The Globetrotters are in their 83rd season. For more information, go to www.harlemglobetrotters.com.
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.
