[McMenamin] “Adjust the courts, please. It’s just slippery. It’s dangerous.” - Luka Doncic on the special NBA Cup court the Lakers played on tonight.
they’re beta testing courts for a new mario kart style game during all star break, with banana peels and turdle shells
How many players are gonna die in Rainbow Road?
Every player crosses the Rainbow Road some day.
That goes to the nba farm in the country, right?
RIP Turntle
With MK being my favorite video game of all time, this might actually get me to tune in lol
Yeah, Mortal Kombat is really cool
Where my guy Goro at
Does the cart drop a turd out the back for you to slip on?
Hmmm I think it would be more profitable to have different objects that could be sponsored.
The player has been slowed down by the Squid hazard - brought to you by fisher price.
You joke, but the LCD floor courts are coming.
Adam Silver is too gimmicky.
this is the NBA, dude.
with players and fans from all over the world.
the game sells itself
nobody needs these Nickelodeon Guts colors on the courts to watch basketball
He can’t figure out how to put the Finals logo on a court, but somehow he can figure out how to slap ads all over the court, along with whatever bullshit they put on for the “Emirates” NBA Cup
The courts are garish and don’t do anything but turn casuals off. Even my wife was like “what the hell is wrong with the court?”. It’s unpleasant to look at
Facts
Even if I actually kinda like it, that is kind of irrelevant.
There’s always gonna be matters of taste but it’s astounding how difficult it seems to be to figure out how to make some wood non slippery. I’m 99% sure if you offer some MIT nerds free season tickets as a reward they’ll solve this in 2 weeks
Eh I didn’t care for it much when it first debuted, but it’s grown on me. It’s kinda charming
I don’t hate it but if it’s even slightly increasing the risk for players getting injured, it needs to be addressed asap.
You haven’t seen the Wolves green
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No it doesn’t. They need new Saudi/Middle East investors or the next NFT since they aren’t going to get another big boost like China, crypto, and gambling. Their profit trajectory is increased growth year over year. You can’t just get another multibillion dollar spike from love of the game. Where is the next market? India? Africa? Good luck selling the game there when they can just watch streams.
If the game sold itself he wouldn’t have had to sham trade Luka to the Lakers to keep the ratings from tanking.
I don’t really understand the hate for it on reddit. Everybody here was complaining about there being no Finals logo and saying that the spécial court makes the game feel special. I like the tournament courts. Obviously if it’s slippery, that needs to be fixed
Having a cup logo would be fine. It would even be cool if they had alternate team logos or something. Having the courts bright garish colors is just off-putting and distracting
Glad he said this. It’s insane that player safety is not a bigger priority than painting the courts aggressive bright colors. They need to figure this out.
Even if player safety wasn’t an issue, they look awful imo. I’m all for changes that improves the game but these courts ain’t it.
The fact that they are hazardous should really force the league to get rid of them. More players should speak out about them if it’s really an issue.
This is just Adam Silver’s NBA. Prioritizing these gimmicky eyesore courts over player safety, unwatchable product with refs taking over every game and players responding with baits and flops, horrible mishandling of every controversy that arises (see Kawhi and Rozier), split up the TV rights among 15 different cable channels and streamers and saying “who cares, just watch highlights on tiktok ig lol”
I really despise that Bald headed Fraud. He’s only still around cause of the Sterling ban. This current “Ref-ball” alone is unforgivable.
There’s not even a fall area around the court. It’s insane that you have 6’6 200lbs and above people who are expected to dive for loose balls with people and camera people sitting exactly where they’ll fall.
And Silver said they removed the finals decals bc they were too slippery. Yet he brings in these courts which are gimmicky and unnecessary and likely even more slippery, for the IST.
This is like year 3 of it being a consistent issue too. IIRC we had one of our floors literally deemed unplayable due to a manufacturing error either last year or the year before
Adam Silver keeps making the product worse.
I get they’re trying to make the in-season tournament games stand out with different courts but some of these courts are terrible to look at or it’s too dark and it’s hard to track the ball esp if you’re watching at a bar.
I’m not even concerned about the looks. They made the courts less safe. Players were clearly having problems keeping their footing.
They literally go hand-in-hand. Who the fuck ever is responsible for IST is doing potentially the worst job of all time.
It could be cool. A single elimination tourney like NCAA or the Olympics? And to do the grouping with regular season games is cool too. But unfortunately it feels forced and ugly.
Ugly asf
The Pelicans one the other day was such a distraction
Honestly they should workshop an NBA Cup floor that has home teams colors/logos highlighted rather than the current product they have. Some floors just should not have made it past preliminary discussions. Looks real bad despite being a cool idea
How the court shows up on screen has made me actively stop watching games. My eyes can’t handle it.
Minnesota court the best ever cup court!!!!!
Edit: Why no one gets the sarcasm sigh!
I too want my basketball to be played on a court resembling radioactive vomit
The fact it’s called the Emirates NBA Cup tells us all we need to know about the vampire’s priorities
He does. I swear, if the guys changing the game don’t even like playing the game, what the hell are we getting from them?
King of the shitty gimmicks, what happened to the game I love, I don’t even watch the games anymore, late 00s and early 10s were peak, make divisions great again and stop letting 50 teams into the playoffs, just devalues rivalries and the regular season even more
The nba ia getting closer and closer to being a havana banana league
Bright ass colors too, whoever designed the timberwolves court for the cup has CTE.
My Nuggets also have an egregiously awful piss yellow court I fucking hate it. Can’t all of them be more stylized like the San Antonio one? Idk which people are happy with someone hitting “fill” on mspaint with the brightest neon colors imaginable but from what I’ve seen, it’s literally none of the fans.
I wish a superstar would just say they won’t play on the court because it’s dangerous.
Only players with that kinda clout are lebron, curry, KD, Giannis, Jokic, Shai, Luka
If I was a player I’d refuse to play .
Their health and their bodies are their most important assets
Imagine tearing ur ACL because of a stupid gimmicky floor that’s not needed
I love that you’ve created a hypothetical situation where you’re a million dollar NBA athlete and the only one brave enough to take a stand.
Its what we do on Reddit babyyyyy
If I was the president I would give you a Medal of Honor
Yeah imagine Kris Dunn taking a stand and refusing to play on the court tonight LOL. DNP’ed and traded
“Sorry guys, if it weren’t for that pesky slippery floor I could’ve given you more than a measly 43 points”
does he really mean that.. looks into the camera and smiles..
I think so.
There were a few slippages during the game.
Players were slipping and falling all game. Throwback to Lebron testing the ist courts in 2023. They need to bring that back.
https://np.reddit.com/r/lakers/comments/17vhw2j/lakers_twitter_56_seconds_of_lebron_testing_the/
Luka had some in game complainants when it was launched when he was on mavs, seeing alot of slips of both teams regardless of home court. With all this AI/green screen crap they should just innovate to it being the og court on real but using tech to do the court for cup games.
They’re also hideous af
You don’t like yellow fever color ?
Their next game is a cup game too. I wonder if they’ll change it. I hope they do (city edition please) cause I’m going and don’t want to wear sunglasses.
Luka has said it’s bad and JJ said they’ll look into it. They must.
At least for 40 year old Bron’s sake
They look tacky af, just put it on the borders or something
surely the technology exists to make them not slippery
Right? There’s been tons of college courts with full court graphics that have been fine. Maybe it’s because they’re more or less one offs and don’t have time to cure or something?
This shit is so gimmicky. I’m surprised they haven’t thought of putting together panels from all the home courts to make the NBA cup finals court yet
Well fuck, now that’s gonna happen and it’s your fault lol
That type of nonsense is catnip to the boardroom execs
Please just say it was hideous.
The Players Union could get this changed
lol yea Luka spent like half the game on the floor I think he was committed to falling instead of possibly sliding and tearing a knee or something
I hate the in-season cup courts. It’s impossible to watch.
dumbest colors too.
idk i like knowing that the highlights i’m watching from random games last year are from an absolutely pointless mid season tournament
Adam silver is a dick.
Fuck this court issues been around since the first year of the CUP.
They won’t do anything until someone gets injured because of it
lose some more weight then fatty
The Wolves court was so obnoxious I quit watching immediately
I’m pretty sure when they have the ice hockey the night before it’s extra slippery but yeah everyone go off on the cup courts
Don’t ruin the fun Luka
If he stopped flopping he might maintain his balance
So salty.
If you said something smart, ppl might listen
Unfortunately we all know that isn’t gonna happen
Edit:: the saying something smart portion, that is. It’s Reddit after all.