By Bill Benner | Pacers.com
The concept was this: Design a multi-use arena that would capture the essence of Indiana basketball, yet equip it with the amenities a new generation of spectators desired.
Thus, on November 6, 1999, with many of the greats of the Hoosier game on hand, Conseco Fieldhouse opened its doors and ushered in a new era as an entertainment venue that still proclaimed "basketball" at every turn of the corner.
And over the intervening 20 years, the Fieldhouse — now Bankers Life Fieldhouse — has been everything its visionaries and architects hoped.