Tourna-mental

 A couple years back the NBA introduced an in season tournament. I have to be honest...I thought it was a stupid waste of time. I didn't pay attention to it at all. 

Last year, while I still don't care about the tournament itself, I did get into it, for one big reason. During the tournament, each team has a special court, which is usually some bright color. Now THAT I can get behind! I paid a lot of attention to the tournament last year, solely to see what all the different floors looked like. This year is turning out to be much harder to follow along as my local cable company took away NBATV, but I do know it's going on now. 

Earlier this month I picked up a second "box" of Haunted Hoops, and in that came my first card showing one of the Tournament floors.

Most of the floors are team colored (Rockets have a red floor, Suns orange, etc) but some of them are kind of strange. The Bucks had a blue floor and wore blue jerseys for the tournament games even though they have never used blue in their 50+ year history. Most of the teams wear special jerseys for the tournament games also but not always. The Bucks blue shown here is the same design as their normal jersey only blue instead of dark green. 

I have no idea why they did that, but who cares? It's fun and unique and that, I like. Alternate jerseys is something I specifically try to buy when I am shopping for single cards so the fact that I pulled this one is a plus. 

I actually knew if I saw any cards showing the Tournament floor I'd have to buy them, but again, I pulled this one, so the problem solved itself. 

I couldn't tell you who won the tournament last year, but the courts in vivid colors? Those I will always remember. 

I withhold the right to start caring about the tournament if the Knicks or Nets win 😆