Safeco Field

Candlestick Park had an alternative configuration to allow for the 49ers to play on Sundays.

The Alamo Dome had an alternative configuration to allow the Spurs to play there.

Safeco Field is perhaps the nicest stadium in the country.

It seems funny that nobody has made an effort to see if it would be plausible to have basketball there.

In fact, didn't the NCAA use a big stadium during the tournament this year?

you cant have an outdoor stadium as a full time basketball arena, rain and wind swirling in the open end during games in the winter? thats just a dumb idea for a full solution maybe 1 game but for a full season thats just a dumb idea

they could try that but i can see bennett and stern saying that that isnt a good enough place to play and if your talking about playing outdoors i think seattle is the last place to play outside it rains none stop up there mabye somewhere like Miami would be good somewhere down south where there's good weather

how is Safeco not an outdoor stadium, even with the roof closed 1/4 of the stadium is still exposed to rain, snow and wind...did you see opening day when there was snowing falling in center field from the wind, a 30 degree basketball game wouldnt be very attractive, Safeco would just be a horrible idea cause they dont have a place for the scoreboard over the court dont have a screen for replays and seating would be horrible, like your idea of trying to find suitable places to play but Safeco would be a worse business move than moving the team to OKC

I think it's more far-fetched to think you can turn a basketball arena into a hockey arena and people do that all the time

Does anybody remember Wrestle Mania in there? It was horrible and I sat in the club seats. Don't ask me why I was there, it was one of those no miss situations...... I did it for the memory of Ricky the Dragon Steamboat!