Kawhi Leonard said he could see it working out, and in a couple of years, Clippers fans should be seeing it, too – seeing game action on the largest ever double-sided halo display in an arena setting when the $1.8 billion Intuit Dome begins hosting the team’s games in 2024.
“I said, ‘Look, I wonder what players are going to think of this,’” Clippers governor Steve Ballmer said of the Halo Board concept before last September’s groundbreaking ceremony in Inglewood. “So one of our folks showed him the design and he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, I think that could work.’”
Ballmer agreed, and so when the Intuit Dome opens, it will feature about 38,375 square feet of digital canvas making up a newfangled version of the Jumbotron.
Some additional details were included in a news release highlighting Daktronics, the company producing LED displays that will make up the Halo Board.
Some of those specifications:
The inside of the display will measure 32 feet high by 623 feet in circumference.
The outer display will measure 28 feet high by 661 feet in circumference.
The entire halo will be 4K and feature a 3.9-millimeter pixel layout.
Additional displays will include large lobby displays, including a 23-foot tall, 190-foot wide screen overlooking the outdoor basketball court. There also are plans for ribbon displays inside seating bowl entrances as well as displays on the courtside scorers tables and basket stanchions.
In a news release, Gillian Zucker, the team’s president of business operations, said the Halo Board will aim to “create one of the most intense live experiences in sports.”
COACH MANN UNDEFEATED
Clippers coach Tyronn Lue says Terance Mann played “the six,” because he can play any position, point guard (one) through center (five). Now kids in Europe are calling Mann “Coach,” because he can do that, too.
Mann led a team that went 8-0 and won the championship in a Basketball Without Borders camp held between June 1-4 in Milan, Italy.
“There’s some good young talent here in Europe!” tweeted the Clippers’ fourth-year wing, whose mother, Daynia-La Force, is an accomplished coach too, having served as the head coach at the University of Rhode Island and as an assistant with the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.
He get it from his momma! https://t.co/R6kEV1womK
— Daynia La-Force (@CoachLaForce) June 6, 2022
The 19th Basketball Without Borders Europe camp brought together 62 of the top high-school-aged boys and girls from 24 countries across Europe to learn from current and former NBA, WNBA and FIBA players and coaches, including the Clippers’ fourth-year wing.
Also involved: Former Clipper Danilo Gallinari (an Italian who plays for the Atlanta Hawks), Kemba Walker (New York Knicks) and Coach Taylor Jenkins (Memphis Grizzlies), among others.
The NBA and FIBA have teamed up to host 63 Basketball Without Borders camps in 30 countries since the program’s inception in 2001. There have been more than 3,700 participants from 133 countries and territories, and 96 former campers have been drafted by or signed with NBA and WNBA teams.
Clippers wing Terance Mann, shown warming up before a game last season, coached a team that went 8-0 and won the championship in a Basketball Without Borders camp held between June 1-4 in Milan, Italy. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)