Talk:John Paul Jones Arena

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Named after the American Revolution naval war hero or the Led Zeppelin bassist? --BDD 15:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

From what I understand, I think it's named after the father of the guy who donated the money for the arena, who just coincidentally had the same name as the Navy guy and the bassist. --MessengerAtLWU 14:30, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

That's mostly correct, the father of the guy who donated money to the arena has the name "John Paul Jones" and he played for the UVa basketball team back in the 1930's --eaglescout1984 01:51, 19 June 2006 (GMT)

maybe this should be mentioned in the article? Paul Tudor Jones, who is a billionaire futures trader and has his own wikipedia article, is the guy who donated 40 million.

Funny; ever since this was announced, people have been making jokes about naming an arena after (the admiteddly great) musician John Paul Jones. I keep instructing them on the history of our fine nation, pointing out that it is clearly named after the naval captain John Paul Jones. Turns out I was wrong the whole time. How about that.... weird, wild stuff. Anyway, mighty fine arena you Hoos have built for yourselves. NCSUPiMaster