Tag: Steve Ballmer

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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What would that mean to the Clippers …

What would that mean to the Clippers and to Los Angeles to win an NBA title with so much energy put on the Lakers? Tyronn Lue: Well, it probably won’t change for the Lakers because they won 17 championships. But for this organization, it would be [franchise-changing] considering where it’s come from, all the stuff that’s happened over the past years and just being the laughingstock of the NBA for so many years. When Doc [Rivers] got here, and Mr. Ballmer got here, they changed the way this organization is seen now. And that’s big. It’s now a Class A organization. They do everything Class A.

Tell me about your relationship with …

Tell me about your relationship with Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and your vision for the future with him. Tyronn Lue: With Mr. Ballmer, he’s not really like any other owner. He’s more like family, and that’s how he treats everybody in the organization. And it’s not like I’m the boss and you guys fall in line; whatever we need, he comes through. And he just treats everybody like he really, genuinely cares, and so that’s just good to see. From how your family is doing, from where you’re from to how can we make things better. Every single day it’s about how we are as people, not worrying about the basketball side but how we are as a family, how we are as people, which has been really good.