The NBA season has started and so has the LA Clippers journey to do better this year. Perhaps that’s the reason why Steve Ballmer is committed to bring new vibes to the team. His first step? Give the  Clippers a new $2 billion stadium. Yes, we’re talking about the Intuit dome and it looks mesmerizing to say the least. People have already started sharing glimpses of what it looks like from the inside.

Forget about 1,400 toilets in the facility. As astonishing as it is to think about, the new Halo Board in the arena blows everything out of the water. ESPN described the Clippers preseason game at the Intuit Dome as “dress rehearsals” because the richest owner in the NBA is a bit cautious of his magnum opus. The real fan experience will become more apparent at the season opener against the Phoenix Suns.

The goal of this arena is to give players a world class facility and the fans, an immersive watching experience. A couple of NBA journalists have already started sharing the magnificent optics inside the arena. Farbod Esnaashari of Sports Illustrated was quick to share the views from the inside in a video on X captioned, “The Clippers’ new entrance using the Halo Board at Intuit Dome is spectacular. It looks incredible in person.”

It’s indeed something ineffable to see. The 360-degree oval screen will keep the fans engaged. Just imagine watching previews and highlights and other performances on that thing. Esnaashari shared another video showing the houseful arena, and people hooked to the Halo Board while it telecasted the cameras on the court. The video captioned “The LA Clippers get their very first introduction ever at the Intuit Dome. What a sight,” is really inexplicable to watch.

This is reportedly the most expensive arena in the league and Ballmer, being a former Microsoft CEO didn’t want any technological glitches to mess up the experience. He was pretty adamant on not having those problems straight from the get go. Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN reported what the Clippers owner had in mind before the official launch of his brainchild.

“I don’t want to see [any technological glitches] opening night. I really don’t. And I’ll probably hold my breath a little. It’s like showing your new baby. There’s a bunch of things where I’ll be worried. But I think most of them will be just fine,” Ballmer told ESPN about the Intuit Dome.

The vibes inside the arena forced us to know more about this $2 billion state of the art basketball facility.

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The construction of this jaw dropping facility started two years ago and it’s surprising how far it has come in such a little time. Ballmer organized multiple concerts for people like Bruno Mars, Usher and many others as a means to soft launch the facility and had his fair share of issues early on. The arena aims to offer fans a seamless experience, but before the regular season started, the Intuit Dome application had some issues with integrations with platforms like Ticketmaster and a couple others, causing a delay as long as 40 minutes in one instance.

However, Ballmer believes that those issues are sorted now. The dome has a capacity of 17.9k people, compared to United Center, which holds an NBA high of 20.9k people. But for all this to be fruitful, the LA Clippers have to win games, at least the ones that happen at home. But, the Clippers owner was confident that the fans will be hooked to his creation from the get-go.

“We’re going to try to make this the most intimate, exciting place in the world to watch a basketball game,” Ballmer told ESPN last week. “And I think we’re there. On the 23rd of October when we open, that will be validated.”

Now, all that’s left is for the Clippers players to do well provide a great ROI to the owner’s investment. How do you think James Harden and the Clippers will do this season? Let us know below.