How the bold new NBA in-season tournament courts came to fruition
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The league wanted something that instantly signaled to fans they were watching a group stage game. The end result? Thirty eye-popping courts, a striking departure from the norm.

https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/status/1719017558462881821

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.

  • Kudos56@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    As a long time proponent of the in-season tournament, I’m starting to have second thoughts.

  • ShutUpCatPeopleRule@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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

  • KebNes@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Most of these courts are god awful. I hope this tournament dies before the Sonics come back. We don’t need a bright gold court destroying our retinas.

  • Kball4177@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I honestly don’t understand the Mavs one. Like why that color scheme? Our entire fanbase is just begigng to go back to the Retro Blue and Green scheme instead we keep getting these muted boring designs.

  • Jreynold@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t hate the idea, I just hate that some of these courts use the awful City Edition designs like Indiana.

  • bravof1ve@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    NBA needs to fire whoever is in charge of these graphics. Between the jerseys and these god forsaken courts shit has been uglier than ever

  • SnippyRiffles@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Gotta love the NBA. Focusing on all their efforts on shiny stuff instead of making the game more enjoyable to watch. Please just Copy/Paste the NFL format with actual divisions so we can have rivalries, less games so the players will care, and a playoff format that doesn’t last over 2 months.

  • Nabz23@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    my god some of these look like an eye sore. So we couldn’t have the finals trophy in the center court during NBA Finals but we can have this for this pointless tournament man what

  • astronomybovine@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Can someone eli5 how the tournament works? Is it just outside of the 82 game schedule? So some teams potentially could play more games in season than others?