So the NBA Finals are all set. We’ve got LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers versus Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat happening down in the Orlando bubble in one of the weirdest seasons in NBA history.
The first game tips off Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. ET so the league has already gone and changed the look of the floor in Orlando to reflect this uniquely historic championship series in NBA history.
However… rather than do some kind of floor design that is as unique as the situation the games will be played under, what the NBA came up with is very, very… boring.
New court design for the 2020 NBA Finals in Orlando: pic.twitter.com/CPwO5gVr0N
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 29, 2020
Seriously, could they possibly have come up with something more basic than that? It looks like something the NBA would put out there for the Summer League.
The most eye-catching part of the NBA Finals floor design might just be the YouTube logo that’s plastered on the court.
NBA is really going to stick a YouTube ad at center court in the NBA Finals? Smh. https://t.co/Y57lMdvPeq
— Michael Taylor (@eyelikehoop) September 29, 2020
As one can imagine, NBA fans are not happy about this perceived lack of effort and are letting the league know.
https://twitter.com/JohnnyIU/status/1310946366659715074 https://twitter.com/PlayoffEdelman/status/1310942566662238211What happened to this iconic logo??? pic.twitter.com/72hyxphwso
— Reece Helms (@Reece_Helms) September 29, 2020
this sucks
— uzi (@michaeluzowuru) September 29, 2020
This is boring
— Keke💫💯♠️ (@keke_Nba20) September 29, 2020
What a disappointing Finals logo https://t.co/SrCkBtrPu0
— Nick Angstadt (@NickVanExit) September 29, 2020
Bruh just make a Lakers and Heat court it’s not that hard
— a🌹 (@NoChillAdil) September 29, 2020
Honestly, if they had just done that the complaints wouldn’t be nearly as loud.