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After breaking ground on a brand new …

After breaking ground on a brand new arena in September 2021, the Los Angeles Clippers have unveiled more details regarding their state-of-the-art scoreboard and video screen. The Intuit Dome, which is scheduled to open in Inglewood at the start of the 2024-25 NBA season, will feature basketball’s largest and most impressive LED display to date. Inside the Clippers’ new $2 billion facility will be the Halo Board, stretching nearly an acre and surrounding 18,000 fans with a 4K view of replays, individual stats, quarter breakdowns, and advanced metrics. It will be the latest innovation of Daktronics, an American LED display designer that’s becoming a household name in the world of sports technology.

It will be a double-sided 4K board …

It will be a double-sided 4K board featuring a 3.9-millimeter pixel layout. The inner display will measure 32 feet high by 623 feet in circumference. The outer display is slated to measure 28 feet high by 661 feet in circumference. Per the Clippers, these dimensions will lead to the full halo being proportionally more balanced than others in professional sports. Gillian Zucker, the LA Clippers President of Business Operations, shared her thoughts on the design and the team’s partnership with one of the leading video display manufacturers. “We are excited to partner with Daktronics, an innovator in video displays, to develop a Halo Board that will create one of the most intense live experiences in sports,” she said.

The Clippers’ ‘halo’ scoreboard inside their new arena looks like every sports fan’s dream

This board looks so cool, y’all.

The sooner the Clippers are able to get out of Crypto.com Arena, the better.

First of all, because it doesn’t feel right typing that out at all. Why in the world would you include dot com in an arena name? Yikes. Staples Center wasn’t the greatest name in the world, but this is dreadful.

But secondly, the Clippers’ new arena looks incredible, y’all. The team broke ground on the “Intuit Dome” at the tail end of last year and the plans behind this thing seem pretty incredible. Every image of Steve Ballmer’s new $1.8 million arena seems like it’s coming right out of a sports fan’s dream.

That is especially the case with the new “halo” scoreboard the arena will apparently have.

In pretty much every sports setting you go to, there’s a scoreboard that holds a bunch of information. It obviously has the stats for every player in the game and key info like what quarter it is, how much time is left and how many timeouts a team has. That’s the basic stuff. Sometimes it’ll even have stats from around the league.

But the way the Clippers’ scoreboard is looking? They’ll probably be streaming Netflix live during the game from this joint or something. It shows you literally everything you can ask for.

Look at this thing, y’all.

It’s a double-sized board broadcasting the game in 4k. The thing is nearly an acre in size. Like, this is completely ridiculous, y’all. It’s totally overboard. I…I love it.

I will say, the “Intuit Dome” name almost sounds as dumb as Crypto Dot Com arena. The only thing it’s missing is dot com, honestly. But I guess this is just the SponCon world we live in at work these days.

Anyway, the Clippers officially move into their new space in 2024 and, honestly, that day cannot get here soon enough.

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