The NBA has unveiled the state-of-the-art full video LED courtroom, that shall be used for NBA All-Star 2024 occasions happening at Lucas Oil Stadium between 16-18 February.
For the primary time ever, occasions together with the All-Star Superstar Sport and Feb. 17’s Expertise Problem, 3-Level Contest and Problem and Slam Dunk occasion, will happen on the immersive LED sports activities flooring that features: design and shade adjustments, dwell replays and different video content material, real-time recreation stats, location-based participant monitoring animations, interactive video games for followers throughout timeouts, immersive animations following key performs and moments.
“It provides us just a little bit extra vary in what we will do so far as interactive graphics, reactionary graphics that occur on the ground, altering the ground design, altering the colours, actually reacting to the play that occurs on the courtroom,” mentioned Carlton Myers, an NBA senior vp overseeing dwell manufacturing and leisure. “So, we really feel actually, actually good concerning the capabilities of what this provides us, what this gives us. And we predict it’s going to be actually impactful, each within the constructing and watching on tv.”
Myers says the NBA has been taking a look at LED courts for about eight years, however the expertise wasn’t fairly proper, so that they didn’t pursue.
“Now the expertise is there, and we really feel actually comfy with it,” Myers defined. “Now could be the time to do it.”
The courtroom was developed by the German firm ASB GlassFloor and has been utilized in occasions by FIBA, the game’s governing physique.
FIBA used LED glass flooring in the course of the U19 Girls’s Basketball World Cup 2023.
Little question will probably be a really cool addition for these watching it dwell and the tens of millions tuning in for All-Star weekend on TV across the globe.
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