The mythical Boston stadium leaves an unmistakable image on the retina of the spectators of a wooden floor of various colors.
The boston celtics They have, throughout their history, unique features that make them the most emblematic franchise in the NBA. They were, along with the New York Knicks, one of two original teams left from the BAA, both by denomination and by location. and they too one of the two most successful franchises in history; next to the Lakers each with 17 titles in 75-year NBA history. But the colors of the TD Garden court floor also tell a good story.
During the post period World War II take the wood for the parquet from the court boston celtics This is a difficult task, the raw material is scarce. Anthony DiNatale was commissioned in 1946 from Walter Brown, team founder, to build that legendary parquet floor for the Boston Celtics. This was the first year after the war and material and economic resources were scarce. DiNatale found some remnants of wood from Tennessee Woods used for the construction of military barracks in the war. The total cost for that new floor is $ 11,000.
The obtained wooden slats they are of very good quality but have different colors and they are arranged forming a total of 247 panels 2.5 square meters and 4 centimeters thick.
Photo of the Boston Celtics team (1979-1980 season). Front row: Left to right; Cedric Maxwell; Assistant coach, KC Jones; Celtics owner Harry Mangurian; Dave Cowens; Celtics general manager, Arnold “Red” Auerbach; Celtics head coach Bill C. Fitch and Don Chaney. Second row: Left to right; Gerald Henderson, ML Carr, Larry Bird, Rick Robey, Eric Fernsten, Jeff Judkins, Chris Ford, Nate Archibald and trainer Ray Melchiorre.
“The wood was of good quality, it was just a different color and that became a recognizable element of the team. I can’t think of other teams that have a parquet that is really their ‘private brand‘”identify Richard Johnsondirector of ‘Sports Museum’ in Boston since 1982, located inside the TD Garden, EFE. “There are some stadiums that wake up to ghosts, like Anfield, or the Bernabéu. The Garden is one of them,” he added.
Those boards came from boston-arena sa bostongarden in 1952 and survived until they decided to change in 1999 (as it was called TD Garden since 1995, under the name of its sponsor, a subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank). One of the NBA’s rules requires changing the floor every ten years, but because the regulations are relatively new, they have only been changed 3 times during the franchise’s 75 years of existence.
Today, none of those pieces of wood remain on the stadium floor, but the representation of that old court continues to be honored and it continues to have a different color.
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