The Salt Lake City arena once known simply as the Delta Center was changed from EnergySolutions Arena to Vivint Smart Home Arena in 2015, giving locals a mouthful to describe where the Utah Jazz played their games.
But at least it wasn’t toxic.
In a 2006 story titled "The Half-Life of Arena Naming Rights," the New York Times called EnergySolutions “a benignly named company that disposes of nuclear waste.”
EnergySolutions has a hazardous waste facility in the Utah desert, leading to all sort of easy jokes about the arena.
KSL Radio in Salt Lake invited fans submit theirs, and some of their nicknames stuck. Among them:
The Melta Center. ChernyoBowl. The Tox Box.
Others simply just called it the Garbage Dump.
On a (maybe) unrelated note, Vivent Smart Home Arena is set to undergo a $110 million facelift this summer to be completed in time for the 2017-18 NBA season.
