A Court Used for Playing Hoops Since 1893. Where? Paris.

[TexasTowelie]

PARIS — The basketball court has warped over the years, growing herringbone hillocks and hollows, like some miniature rolling plain. The wood slats wobble underfoot. Two iron pillars ascend, almost comically, from the middle of the floor.

The basketball court, in other words, is in no sort of shape for basketball.

Yet Sylvie Manac’h — the new director of the Y.M.C.A. in Paris, where the court is housed — seemed taken aback when a recent visitor wondered aloud whether Manac’h ever wished she could tear the floor up and install a glistening replacement.

“No,” she said. “I want this one.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/sports/basketball/a-court-used-for-playing-hoops-since-1893-where-paris.html

[ProfessorGAC]

2. IT Really Would Have Been Cool, If. . .

. . .there were still peach baskets on those poles. Still, this is pretty cool.

[Iggo]

3. Wow! Look at that floor!

And you think the old Boston Garden had dead spots!