FleetCenter might replace parquet floor

[jmc@ptc.com]

Parquet floor might be off to the Hall of Fame: 

http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/wire/stories/0,1169,1556686_54,00.html

Excerpts: 
>    Nov. 9, 1999 10:55 AM
>    AP 
> 
>    FleetCenter and team officials are exploring the possibility of
>    replacing the crosscut oak floor that is as old as the NBA.
...
>    Opposing players have complained over the years of so-called "dead
>    spots" - areas where they say the basketball doesn't bounce the
>    way it should.
...
>    Some of the sample floor panels the team and the FleetCenter are
>    examining are much bigger, measuring 4 feet by 9 feet.
> 
>    "Whatever is done, we'd like there to be a continuity with the
>    Celtic tradition," Delaney told The Boston Globe.
> 
>    Rick Pitino, Celtics president and coach, said he didn't know
>    about the floor being replaced, but team spokesman Jeff Twiss
>    confirmed that replacement samples have been examined.
> 
>    Original Celtics owner Walter Brown had the floor built for about
>    $11,000 by the East Boston Lumber Co. in 1946. The floor was built
>    from crosscut oak scraps from a Tennessee forest because of a
>    post-World War II shortage of materials.

Jon Mc