Bring the finals logo back on the court
— Quentin Grimes (@qdotgrimes) June 6, 2025
The NBA Finals got underway on Thursday night as the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder began a battle to decide the 2025 NBA champions. The stage was set as both teams look to win their franchise’s first ever championship and the court was…littered with YouTube TV ads.
There was not much NBA Finals signage other than an imprint of the Larry O’Brien trophy being on the basket stanchion, but that was all. No special Finals script on the court. No specialty added to the Paycom Center to signal that this game means more. This is for the championship and the court appeared to look like it was a random Tuesday night game in January.
Philadelphia 76ers guard Quentin Grimes, as well as the rest of the NBA watching world, took to Twitter to send a message to the league about the lack of finals signage on the court.
Grimes is 100% right. The league has to do something to make the Finals feel as special as it ought to. There needs to be more signage and a change to the court or something in order to take it all to another level as it had been in the past.
As for Grimes’ current free agency status, the Sixers will look to bring back the restricted free agent after he performed well in 28 games for Philadelphia. He averaged 21.9 points after the Sixers acquired him from the Dallas Mavericks at the February trade deadline.