In fact, I not only don’t follow the NBA, I also treat the sports segment of the nightly news as an extended commercial break. But tonight I happened to glance up during the T-wolves bit and saw that the Xcel Center has a two-tone floor - a lighter wood for inside the three-point line and a darker varnish for the main floor. Anyone else do that or is it a MN thang? And for how long, exactly, have I been oblivious to the meme?
I should probably note that there are few things more dull than baseball on television, but I do pause while scrolling through channels to see how the groundskeepers are mowing this year.
It’s not new, but I don’t watch enough Basketball to name other arena’s off the top of my head that do this right now. College and NBA venues have pretty much always varied their floor designs from year to year, and many of those variations have included solid painted 3-point areas, painted key areas and varying degrees of wood tones. It’s all basically an extension of the Celtics classic parquet and other places are trying to be distinctive and eye-catching on TV.
Most stadiums have a handful of different floor designs that they use as well, the United Center in Chicago has their basic Bulls floor, a Big Ten floor that they lay out during the Big Ten Championship tourney, a Generic floor that comes out during Illini “neutral” site games and a another design that they use during March Madness games they host. Each of these designs change frequently, and some get special temporary logos stuck on top of the wood for some events.
Long story short, the T-Wolves two-tone wood is probably one of the classier implementations, but they aren’t the first it and there are dozens of floors with 3-point areas painted solid.
Ooooh, yeah, that’s what’s jarring my eyes - usually the 3-point area and/or key is painted in a team color, yes? I like the varnish a lot better.
And stop coughing your germs on me, LOUNE, I said at the outset that I was ignorant. But there’s no date on your link, so did the Cavs and the Wolves come to a similar conclusion in the same year?
But there’s no date on your link, so did the Cavs and the Wolves come to a similar conclusion in the same year?