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[Lowe] The in-season tournament will include new, special courts for all 30 teams — revealed exclusively here. These are unlike almost anything you’ve seen in the NBA:


> The in-season tournament will include new, special courts for all 30 teams — revealed exclusively here. These are unlike almost anything you’ve seen in the NBA:

Zach Lowe’s latest on the new NBA special court designs. and yes, the article isn’t paywalled.

by sewsgup

29 Comments

  4. NeonxGone

    RIP my eyeballs when I watch the Lakers on an all yellow court

  5. NeonxGone

    This is clearly just a money grab to try to sell more courts

  6. richard_golbes

    I usually don’t care for this stuff, but it will make it more obvious which games are “tournament” games so it is actually functional.

  7. hotdogflavoredblunt

    Ngl I’m digging the voodoo skeleton pelican. It’s nice to get a theme other than Mardi Gras. Even if voodoo is still an entirely touristy concept down here lmao

  8. MehFrosty

    Kinda cool I guess, having a feeling some of these courts are going to be eyesores though

  9. Nnooaahh12

    They can do this but can’t add the playoff and finals logo decals back on the court??? 😐

  11. lilshawnyy420

    is this the reason every jersey is dark colored? so they contrast with the courts?

  12. ihateeuge

    I’m going to the Mavs Pels tournament game so this will be something cool to see in person

  13. TheBenMan08

    This seems cool. And differentiation is good, I have no idea when these playoff games are and will tune in to them

  14. SpeclorTheGreat

    I hope this means that they’re going to bring the unique Finals look back this year.

  15. whowasonCRACK2

    I can’t imagine these are going to look good on TV

  16. thy_armageddon

    I’ve played 2K for over a decade and people create shit like this all the time. Don’t tell me my business, Zach.

  17. guesting

    just make the in season tournament a rock and jock mtv game

  18. Brad-Stevens

    So they can add the trophy to the court for this tournament but not in the finals??

    Jokes

  19. Extremeaty

    This tournament is so dumb man what is Silver doing. This makes it feel like even more of a gimmick

  21. Due_Connection179

    But they couldn’t make custom courts for the Finals?

  22. Wicky_wild_wild

    Clearly the tournament is so necessary that these gimmicks to get people to like it are just a cherry on top, *right*?

  24. asapshrank

    This is actually awesome and a very smart move to separate the tournament games

  25. Classics22

    This is fun, instantly recognizable and will change the whole feel. Some of them look real bad(wtf is the “Indy” logo) but there’s some awesome ones in there.

  26. crisvincent

    Man, I love all things Lakers but that court is hideous. Why pick the gold (banana yellow) instead of the purple. It would have been fine if it was the old gold instead of the Nike one. This version is too bright. We should have gotten first dibs on the purple instead of the Jazz (I love theirs).

    EDIT: I love the Spurs, Grizzlies, Jazz courts. But the worst one has to be the Pelicans. Holy hell. The pelican on the middle looks so out of place.

    EDIT 2: On second thought, the Pelicans’ court doesn’t look too bad if viewed on a much larger screen. So it might look decent in an NBA court.

  27. ShutUpCatPeopleRule

    I just Cannot FUCKING BELIEVE THE ACTUAL NAME THEY ARE GOING WITH

    Is the “in season tournament”

    This is the lamest name for any competition ever of anything.

    WNBA has the commissioners cup. That’s a fucking cool name and not hard to come up with.

    The lack of marketing or PR person saying “we should actually give this tournament a name” truly, truly astounds and hurts me

  28. JE_Skeets

    The NBA’s head of on-court and brand partnerships name is Mr. Arena.

  29. _pinklemonade_

    Major sports will do anything to increase revenue **except** make all games available to watch.

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