Hardwood is basketball's longtime foundation. A German company would love to change that to glass
Chris Thornton loves talking about playing basketball on the most fragile-sounding of surfaces: glass.
Thornton is managing director of the Americas division of ASB GlassFloor , a German company building floors made of fused-together layers of safety glass covering LED panels. The courts are a far more dynamic visual feast, with customized playing lines, logos, colors, animated graphics and advertisements for multiple sports.
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