The Rockets have a new court

If you visit the Houston Rockets’ website on a daily basis like we do, you’ll note that they’ve announced a new color scheme to their court.

This may not be as exciting as Phil Jackson going into the Hall of Fame, or learning the real reason why Gilbert Arenas didn’t have his passport to go to Canada a couple weeks back, but if you’re into the Houston Rockets, and you’re into basketball court refurbishing, this is the post for you.

“The best part of this design is the court is really going to stand out because the lighting isn’t going to get saturated into the red,” said Rockets creative services manager Jose Lopez, who designed the court. “Since we have red seats, it will be a great contrast.”

We’d say the best part of the design is it brings the Rockets a little closer to simplicity.

Ever since they went to the “exploding rocket ship cartoon” design of the mid-90s, the Rockets have had maybe the worst logos/uniforms/etc in the NBA. The Pistons were smart enough to ditch their “exploding horse engine cartoon” and return to a variation on their classic logo/uniforms/etc in time to win their flukey title a few years ago – we wish the Rockets would do the same.

Maybe they could have similar luck – like how they signed Steve Francis this summer. (Insert your own joke here – we exhausted our Franchise backlog in December.)

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