We're #8

[maxiep]

http://grantland.com/features/nba-court-design-power-rankings/

This is the only 2014-15 redesign that strikes me as a downgrade. The Blazers are joining the two-toned club, though their midcourt wood is more muted than Minnesota’s glazed coating, and at least they’re making an effort to zig one way as the league zags the other.

They’re also going back to a standard painted area after leaving the paint below the foul line blank and filling only the top half of the semicircle with their trademark Blazer red:

They were the only team in the league with that look; they eliminated the colored edges of the paint that had become so in vogue a few years ago but left the red half-circle. It was a cool compromise, something that set Portland apart.

But the Blazers can fall only so low as long as they keep that pinwheel logo, the greatest piece of abstract art in American pro sports. The red and white stripes, five of each, are meant to represent players on two opposing teams working together and then crisscrossing with their enemies in a balletic blur. If basketball is poetry, the Blazers’ logo is the only one that encapsulates the sport’s poetic nature.

 

[maxiep]

Fuck this list.

#1 invalidates this moron's opinion.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Fuck this list.

#1 invalidates this moron's opinion.

Get out of my keyboard, Max.

 

[BBert]

"Grantland. LOL"

 

[BBert]

Fuck this list.

#1 invalidates this moron's opinion.

Yeah, WTF? That pee stained court is the worst in the league, and not because of the team playing on it. It's terrible.

 

[PDXFonz]

No idea how Charlotte isn't #1

 

[jlprk]

Our floor needs something special, like bathroom tile. Useful when the toilet floods.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Yeah, WTF? That pee stained court is the worst in the league, and not because of the team playing on it. It's terrible.

Technically, pee is #1. So, it makes sense that their court is #1.

 

[santeesioux]

Get out of my keyboard, Max.

Get out of my head, Wook and Maxie.

 

[oldguy]

No idea how Charlotte isn't #1

Pretty easily my fav, too.

It looks like Toronto and Portland had the same court designer.

Go Blazers

 

[Sinobas]

Ive always seen that old Hawks logo as a pac-man. When I was a kid I could never figure out what it was supposed to represent!

 

[craigehlo]

"Grantland. LOL"

Huh? Zach Lowe is the best NBA writer IMHO. It's a damn good site.

 

[KingSpeed]

Great to read great stuff about my tattoo. I just felt cooler.

 

[BBert]

Technically, pee is #1. So, it makes sense that their court is #1.

Oh, Touche!

You've got me there.

And the guy who picked the Staples piss and purple No. 1 is No. 2.

 

[BBert]

Huh? Zach Lowe is the best NBA writer IMHO. It's a damn good site.

That was my Wookie impression. Needs work, huh?

 

[PDXFonz]

The shaded portion of our court is to mark Dames 3 pt range

 

[THE HCP]

Great to read great stuff about my tattoo. I just felt cooler.

Whatever! You don't have a Blazer tattoo! Link?


Sent from my baller ass iPhone 5S...... FAMS!

 

[Strenuus]

Whatever! You don't have a Blazer tattoo! Link?


Sent from my baller ass iPhone 5S...... FAMS!

he does.

 

[-Ace-]

Ive always seen that old Hawks logo as a pac-man. When I was a kid I could never figure out what it was supposed to represent!

I did too. I also used to see the Batman logo as a mouth with weird teeth.

 

[illmatic99]

Agree with Lowe on our ranking. It's markedly uglier from our classic but simple design from last year. Don't change it when it works.

But my #1 would easily be CHA. Holy shit, that looks boss.

 

[KingSpeed]

Whatever! You don't have a Blazer tattoo! Link?


Sent from my baller ass iPhone 5S...... FAMS!

My left calf. Got it last summer.

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[BBert]

The LCP knew that. He just wanted to see some leg.

 

[KingSpeed]

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[THE HCP]

Look in the background and you can see the box of cereal where you got that tattoo from!


Sent from my baller ass iPhone 5S...... FAMS!

 

[BBert]

So is that a urine sample on the tray or what?

 

[BBert]

Despite Lowe's Lakers cock sucking, I absolutely agree with him on this:

But the Blazers can fall only so low as long as they keep that pinwheel logo, the greatest piece of abstract art in American pro sports...If basketball is poetry, the Blazers’ logo is the only one that encapsulates the sport’s poetic nature.