When I was a kid I thought indoor arenas have multiple rooms like a movie house. Lol

holy shit all this in one night its frickin awesome

wtf am i doing? its 3 am

Watch in reverse to see NBA to NHL

Wow this was made in 2007! It’s not very common that you will see hd vids from this era!

Eye opening stuff. Pretty cool to see the whole process that make these transformations happen

Wow; I think it is crazy how much bigger the rink is than the court!! We never really get to notice that!

I can imagine all the grounds crew going "All right, the Maple Leafs are done, let's go on to the good team". xD

This video made me realize that basketball court is so small compare to hockey's court

Hockey Stadium Is Bigger Than the raptors court

On rare occasions, the minor league hockey team in Indianapolis (the Ice) plays at Conseco Fieldhouse. Conseco also used to host an arena football team. But instead of having to install temporary seats for basketball, a section of seats just retracts into the wall. I'm sure that makes conversion a lot easier than at Air Canada Centre.

LeBronto Arena

So the ice doesn't melt after you put the tarp on?

Found this on my recommendation for no reason didn't regret it

Seeing a video from 16 years ago and you remember how long it’s been since the leafs advanced

Man that zamboni was fast 🤣

Big up me brethren, a mighty video dat! More life and strength.

Here because of the steph curry slip interview

That's just hypnotizing

What is the craziest thing to me is that the ice never goes away. They just lay down some floor insulation and multiple mats on top of it and bam you have a basketball court.

that looks interesting and at the same time, it looks like it is very hard work.

awesome video, thanks for uploading

I saw a comment on a video like this from a kid that was a NBA 2k fanatic... he said basketball is way harder to set up than hockey is... no.

Always wanted to know this! But wow, seems like alot of work to be done in 1 day. Go Leafs and Raps!!!

Damn, this was made in 2007 but the video looks like 2019 material. Damn

Very cool timelapse

Nigga that was so satisfying 😣

Scottrade Center in St. Louis also converts for college games

I use to do this for a second job at the first Niagara center in BUFFALO ny it was cool at first but that novelty wore off fast so much back breaking work esp when the stupid monster truck show that has no bussines being in a small ass arena and like only a hundred people attend so much clean up!

Thanks for this. We wondered how this happened

@LyricsCo yea its smaller but its more pieces to lay down than anything else

So technically if you sit in the first 10 rows behind the baskets you can tell people that you were on the ice!

I like looking at the time at on the jumbotron lol

I thought there’s a two arena inside of the air canada centre one for basketball and one for hockey

Is there a marker somewhere that makes it easy for them to set up the basketball floor in the same exact location each time, or do they have to guess?

Amazing

I would be interested in how they store the ice and where also the extent of the cooling system under the ice that's really fascinating I was wondering how they kept the logos on the ice

@mkjhagfv you like this vid then you might want to checkout the time lapse 2010 nba allstar game where the cowboy stadium(football field) is converted to basketball court

Thats cool

music reminds me of old cartoons

How could this possibly be more cost-efficient over decades of time vs building a new arena? This switcharoo would happen almost daily

The whole arena conversion took more than 10 hours. Look at the top center in 0:40 and 2:23. The time was from 10 am/pm to 8.19 am/pm.

Wait so the wood basketball surface is a bunch of panels? Neato. Do they fit together like puzzle pieces or are they super heavy? Or like, do the black mats have a lot of traction? I could see the wood panels slipping around and causing cracks between them and whatnot with people walking and sliding and stuff on them. What stops that from happening?

Just realized its air canada center home of my boys the raptors and maple leafs

I saw clock start around 10:06 until 8:14 so I'm guessing 10-12 hours in total!

I had always thought they had a magic button

So this is where the phrase, “I’m putting your ankles on skates!” Come from lol

11 years!!

bruh as a kid I always thought it was just a giant block of ice...

That's crazy how is the same stadium though

It seems like our sport teams like to share stadium/arena; TFC with Argos, Raptors with Leafs

I wonder if it’s actually colder on that court than any other regular courts.

Air Canada Center, Toronto ❤

unfourtunately the staples center's time change is 1 hour and 42 minutes

All I could think of was. "RoCking and fucking rolling"

Damn they gotta do this like every other day

wow I didn't know they play basketball right on top of the ice. I thought they melted it all before each NBA game.

10 years ago, wow

Arena conversion of nba or nhl to wwe ring? That could be nice

cool vid lots of hard work to convert every 3-4 days

Is the monitor in the center of the raptors court.? I think its off

Wow, that was crazy

Almost all do. The key is to design an arena that is great for hockey sight lines, but cozy for basketball too. I feel the Staples Center gets an F for this. Remember how no one liked NBA games at domes. Well that 's what they basically did. The old Boston Garden to me had the perfect layout and should've been modeled for today. Not a bad seat in the house for anything, including concerts.

11 hours?! MSG in NYC does it in about 4 hours.

So,after they cover the ice they play jigsaw puzzle?

Wow that was fast 😮

Have they ever accidentally set up the court in the wrong direction

They cover the ice with those black squares.

can someone tell me how the took the seats out of the hockey arena part then added them back in? this went little too fast so i didnt know. thanks in advance!

Wow it only takes 2 minutes?!?! I was for sure thinking that it would take at least a day. Amazing!

Ayyy the acc

When they take up the ice floor what are those tiles made of? Is there ice on top of those tiles that they melt after the game? Is there ice under the tiles that they leave there all season? What about concerts and stuff?

@asanrules Does the weight of the hardwood and the rubber mats crack the ice?

I'm hoping they pay the crews that changes all of this are paid well. That has to take forever.

what if they have a game in the same place at the same time?

That is cool

very cool

It would be funny if condensation occurred and the court became slippery. Conversely this is why some times ice conditions become bad after a different event was on it hours before. Ice gets too soft so the puck creates odd bounces and such.

how much cost each time convert the arena?

I don’t know why but the but the basketball arena looks small

I need a life

When did a truck fit there

11 hours? dam there must have been alot of people then

i m from india.here we don`t have any established sport.forget about about professional one.so we usually tune into epl for soccer or to nba for basketball.after viewing this video i must admit that many indians like me are actually lazy even to do our regular work.i would like to applaud all these gentlemen for the hard work they do which gives the platform for public entertainment.

So, that's how they do it. Thanks!

I enjoy the song more than the conversion lol What's the title of the song?

How can melt the ice so fast ?

no it takes them only about 2 to 2.5 hours to do that.

Yeah! Leafs and Raptors FTW!

Awesome :D

It's 2018 you can't tell me that this switch over couldn't be automated. Sure it would cost tens of millions to set it up, but that would pay for itself in a couple of years tops.

lol good editing for 11 years ago

And how many arenas do convert like this one?

I didn't know basketball was played on ice!

the ice underneath doesnt melt?

is their a website that ranks the best conversion arenas i think my boss told me their was a site but i never checked it

Why did i just watch this...

What do they do with the ice? It would be expensive to keep it cool during the entire basketball game.

@asanrules Im sorry but whoever told you that converting the ACC takes 8 Hours for NHL to NBA it takes about 4 hours, I work on the ACC's different event Change-outs

Watch the clock at the top