By Fielding Buck | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: October 19, 2018 at 6:41 am | UPDATED: October 20, 2018 at 4:40 pm Oct. 24, 2008 was the day L.A. came to the city of Ontario. That was when Citizens Business Bank Arena opened its doors to the public. The Los Angeles Lakers traveled east for the occasion. Kobe Bryant came off the injured list to help beat the Oklahoma Thunder in a nationally televised exhibition game. To then city manager Greg Devereaux, the opening of the $150 million, 11,000-seat venue was a step up for the entire Inland Empire. It brought “a certain level of entertainment and class that we didn’t have, our own sports teams,” he said in a phone interview. “People don’t think about this often. We’re a large enough metropolitan area … if we were out by ourselves anywhere else in the country and had our own media market, we’d have a full slate of professional teams.” Flash forward 10 years, and Citizens Business Bank Arena has carved out a market for itself as the home of minor league sports and major league rockers. It begins its second decade Wednesday, Oct. 24, with a free open house where… Read full this story
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