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Zach Lowe ranks NBA court designs

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3. Charlotte Hornets

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Yep. A team that hasn’t even existed since 2002 is landing smack in the no. 3 spot. The only bad things about this slick new court are the words “Time Warner,” a reminder of the cable company that took years off my life with crappy service and even crappier customer service in response to that crappy service.

The center-court logo has a clean triangular structure, and the mean hornet looks ready to sting visiting players. The paint is a deep purple-blue that sings without college lane markings, and the teal is obviously a callback to the original Charlotte Hornets. Too much teal can be a bad thing, as the old Hornets learned, and the new Hornets are parceling it out in lighter doses.

And then there is the pièce de résistance, the hexagonal honeycombed pattern of the floor boarding.

That is a freaking masterpiece. The old Hornets experimented with the honeycomb theme, but the edges of each honeycomb were so dark as to overwhelm every other design element. The new ones feature soft boundaries and shading that creates a pattern without screaming.

This is so much better than any of the Creamsicle crap the Bobcats ever tried that it almost makes the old Charlotte franchise look like a minor league outfit. All hail the return of the Buzz.

 

 

Whoaaaa.. nice work. 

 

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

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I was thinking yesterday. Not one team has a court that represents THEIR team better than the Hornets' court represents them. I know the Celtics floor is legendary with the parquet flooring but the fact that our organization took the extra step to make sure our parquet flooring was laid out in a honeycomb pattern to symbolize hornets is really a unique touch. Nobody else goes that extra mile. Really nice IMO. It would be like if the Lakers floor looked like waves of water. We have something really special.

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