FIBA is debuting its new LED basketball court this weekend in Madrid.

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[BlazerWookee]

The silly gets sillier.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Hate it.

 

[Sloth]

I shudder to think how much money that costs which could have went to something more prudent.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

BUT THINK OF ALL THE ADVERTISEMENTS THEY CAN SHOW ON IT!

 

[Natebishop3]

How long before someone hacks one of these things and posts some naked ladies?

 

[Sloth]

How long before someone backs one of these things and posts some naked ladies?

Perv!

 

[theprunetang]

The visual movement seems highly distracting for players.

 

[Tince]

I like it... makes sense on a few different levels.

Change is hard for people though, so I get the push-back.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Instead of squinting at those tiny monitors, the refs could watch the replays on the court!

 

[Samuel]

I like it for all-star games and the mid-season tournament. Strange 5 pointer spheres that appear and disappear at random.

Other than that, put it as far away from the games as possible.

 

[Phatguysrule]

I like it

 

[Eastoff]

The visual movement seems highly distracting for players.

I envision a local advertiser liked to change the court during the opponents possessions.

 

[Strenuus]

I can't get past the glass court description. For a basketball court.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

and so, it begins.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

How long before someone hacks one of these things and posts some naked ladies?

Or shifts the 3 point line to be closer for one team. Or widens or narrows the key. I could definitely see potential for shenanigans.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Or shifts the 3 point line to be closer for one team. Or widens or narrows the key. I could definitely see potential for shenanigans.

HOMECOURT ADVANTAGE!

 

[Further]

I find it both transfixing and off putting. I’m not g Ty he target market for this, but I would not watch games on that court, especially if images moved during play. It’s one thing for timeouts or halftime, but I’m not going to be able to watch all the little things that I love about basketball like skilled got work or even shooting form while the background is changing and unnatural colors keep flashing.

it’s WWE vs boxing. I want to watch the sport and not the story.

 

[speeds]

I can't get past the glass court description. For a basketball court.

Same. I wanted to look it up to see if it was slippery/slippery when wet. The designer claims...

The interactive court, designed by the German company ASB GlassFloor, is an LED screen covered by connecting squared panels of textured glass that contains ceramic dots for traction and elasticity to prevent floor burns and dead spots.

FIBA’s Head of Equipment & Venue Centre Bart Prinssen claims the high-end ASB LumiFlex court has an almost identical feel to a hardwood floor, straight down to the sound of a dribble. But after that, the possibilities are endless and similarities essentially nil.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.c...lass-led-basketball-court-asb-glassfloor.aspx

 

[speeds]

I shudder to think how much money that costs which could have went to something more prudent.

$2.5MM for the "good" version while you've got homeless encampments within miles of many arenas.

 

[maxiep]

I so want to see an enormous Tom Peterson appearing from the bottom and knocking on the court bellowing, "Wake up! Wake up!"

 

[Idog1976]

BUT THINK OF ALL THE ADVERTISEMENTS THEY CAN SHOW ON IT!

I was thinking this was an absolute abomination, and then you explained why it's happening. That would be so incredibly distracting for me, and I legit wonder what it might do the the players eyes over a long enough time period.

 

[Idog1976]

I like it... makes sense on a few different levels.

Change is hard for people though, so I get the push-back.

I get some people like every shiny new thing, like spraying children with DDT in the 1950's or Thalidomide for pregnant women. Hey it's new it must be good and anyone questioning it is a Luddite holding us back from our Brave New World!

 

[Phatguysrule]

$2.5MM for the "good" version while you've got homeless encampments within miles of many arenas.

Lack of money in the city is not the reason we have homeless. It's about 4-6X more expensive for the taxpayers to allow people to be homeless than it would be to pay their rent.

They are homeless because the voting population wants them to suffer for their sins. That's it.

 

[Samuel]

Same. I wanted to look it up to see if it was slippery/slippery when wet. The designer claims...

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.c...lass-led-basketball-court-asb-glassfloor.aspx

any time any player gets seriously injured on this thing their agent will tell them about those ceramic dots for traction and elasticity and their eyes will glaze over at the explanation.

 

[handiman]

This is good news. UO's court won't be the most unwatchable in the sport anymore.

 

[barfo]

Beat me to it. I was just about to post that now every team can have a court as ugly as UofO's.

barfo

 

[tykendo]

The silly gets sillier.

So a player's gonna look down to see how many rebounds he needs to get a trip dub, and trip over his own two feet. I can see it now, vapor trails behind guys going to the hoop. Like that hockey puck thing.

 

[Samuel]

‘If you make 3 baskets in a row, a trail of smoke trails you until you miss…’

 

[Natebishop3]

‘If you make 3 baskets in a row, a trail of smoke trails you until you miss…’

Conversely, a trail of snow flakes follow around someone who is ice cold.