Editing Rocket Arena (section)

==Tenants==

===Current===
[[File:Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (51871113113).jpg|thumb|Exterior view in 2022]]
As the home of the Cavaliers and Monsters, Rocket Arena has hosted a number of notable events for each team, including playoff and championship games. Through the 2020–2021 season, the Cavs have hosted playoff games in 12 of their 27 seasons at Rocket Arena, including games three and four of the [[2007 NBA Finals]], [[2017 NBA Finals|2017 Finals]], [[2018 NBA Finals|2018 Finals]] and games three, four, and six of the [[2015 NBA Finals|2015]] and [[2016 NBA Finals|2016 Finals]]. The arena was also the site of the [[1997 NBA All-Star Game]], which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the NBA, and it also hosted the [[2022 NBA All-Star Game|2022 All-Star Game]], honoring the league's 75th anniversary.

The Monsters made their playoff debut in 2011 and returned to the playoffs in 2016. In the [[2016 Calder Cup playoffs]], the team advanced to the [[Calder Cup]] final and swept the [[Hershey Bears]] in four games for their first Calder Cup in franchise history. Games three and four were held at Rocket Arena. Game four, held on June 11, was a sell-out and drew 19,665 fans, which set a record for largest crowd to ever see a professional hockey game in the state of Ohio and the second-largest postseason crowd in [[American Hockey League]] history.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Monsters bring Calder Cup back to Cleveland|url=http://theahl.com/monsters-bring-calder-cup-back-to-cleveland-p202772|publisher=[[American Hockey League]]|date=June 11, 2016|access-date=June 24, 2016|archive-date=June 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613114358/http://theahl.com/monsters-bring-calder-cup-back-to-cleveland-p202772|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Former===
Rocket Arena has been home to other franchises that have either relocated or folded. When it opened in 1994, in addition to being home of the Cavaliers, it was also the home arena for the [[Cleveland Lumberjacks]] of the [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|International Hockey League]] (IHL). The Lumberjacks played at the arena until 2001, when the team folded along with the IHL. Later that year, a new incarnation of the [[Cleveland Barons (2001–2006)|Cleveland Barons]], who played in the American Hockey League, began play and were tenants at the arena until 2006 when the team moved to [[Worcester, Massachusetts]].

The [[Cleveland Gladiators]] of the [[Arena Football League]] qualified for the playoffs in six of their nine seasons in Cleveland and hosted playoff games in 2008, 2011, and 2014. During the 2014 season, the team finished 15–1 overall and advanced to [[ArenaBowl XXVII]], which was held at Rocket Arena. The game drew 18,410 fans and was held at the same time as a [[Cleveland Browns]] home preseason game at [[FirstEnergy Stadium]], and a [[Cleveland Indians]] home game at adjacent [[Progressive Field]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Cleveland Gladiators Advance to ArenaBowl XXVII, Defeat Orlando Predators, 56–46|first=Tim|last=Warsinskey|url=http://www.cleveland.com/gladiators/index.ssf/2014/08/cleveland_gladiators_advance_t.html|newspaper=[[The Plain Dealer]]|location=Cleveland|date=August 10, 2014|access-date=June 24, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=MAP: Where to Park for the Browns, Indians or Gladiators Games This Weekend|first=Faith|last=Boone|url=http://www.newsnet5.com/news/map-where-to-park-for-the-browns-indians-or-gladiators-games-this-weekend|publisher=[[WEWS-TV|WEWS]]|location=Cleveland|date=August 22, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805205245/http://www.newsnet5.com/news/map-where-to-park-for-the-browns-indians-or-gladiators-games-this-weekend|archive-date=August 5, 2016}}</ref>

Two women's professional teams have also called the arena home. From 1997 to 2003, the [[Cleveland Rockers]], one of the eight charter members of the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA), played at Rocket Arena. The team folded after the [[2003 WNBA season]] because the Gund's, who still owned the Cavs at that point, no longer wished to operate the Rockers franchise, and a new ownership group could not be obtained. The [[Toledo Crush|Cleveland Crush]] of the [[Legends Football League|Lingerie Football League]] played at Rocket Arena for their 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons before moving to [[Toledo, Ohio]], in late 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/12/17/cleveland-crush-franchise-will-relocate-to-toledo |title=Cleveland Crush Franchise Will Relocate to Toledo|author=Allard, Sam|date=December 17, 2013|work=CleveScene|access-date=June 23, 2016}}</ref>