Sources: Trophy logo to return to NBA Finals court

Back by fashionable demand, the NBA Finals volition person the ample Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy logo instrumentality to halfway tribunal and the Finals publication logo connected the location team's floor, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania connected Wednesday.

The logos volition beryllium painted connected the tribunal alternatively of appearing digitally oregon via a decal, sources told ESPN.

Fans connected societal media complained during and aft Game 1 of the past Finals betwixt Oklahoma City and Indiana erstwhile they saw determination were nary Finals logo decals connected the court.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver noticed the discussions during the Finals and said the league would look into perchance bringing backmost the distinctive logos that came lone connected the NBA's biggest stage.

"I've seen immoderate of the chatter connected societal media astir on-court decals," Silver said connected ESPN during the Finals. "People don't recognize they went distant a decennary agone due to the fact that determination were claims that immoderate of the players [were saying] they were slippery erstwhile we had the decals connected the floor."

The past clip the ample trophy was painted connected an NBA Finals tribunal was successful 2009.

"Maybe there's a mode astir it," Silver told reporters during the Finals. "To beryllium honest, I hadn't thought each that overmuch astir it until I [saw] it [on societal media].

"I'm nostalgic, arsenic well, for definite things. And also, I deliberation for a media-driven culture, whether it's radical watching unrecorded oregon seeing those images connected societal media, it's bully erstwhile you're looking backmost connected highlights and they basal retired due to the fact that you spot that trophy logo oregon immoderate different denotation that it's a peculiar event."