Comment on Hardwood is basketball's longtime foundation. A German company would love to change that to glass

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh yeah, history is rife with attempts to change flooring on sports that didn’t pan out, like Carpet Court or Blue Clay in tennis. For basketball, I walked on a Nike Grind court (Well, not 100% if was Nike Grind per se, but they said it was made out of recycled shoes so…) that they have at their Beaverton campus and the cushioning felt fairly noticeable.

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was making a joke about something more like this but yeah I could see how messing with the floor surface would cause problems, I’m as far from a professional in either sport as you can get

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