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 ...

Hardwood floors have been a staple of basketball courts for decades, but one German company is selling an unconventional upgrade: glass. While it may sound counterintuitive or dangerous, ASB ...

Down on hands and knees in the Alamodome, workers lurched forward to generate enough leverage to slide one large wood panel alongside another. Nearby was a 15-pound sledgehammer at the ready for a few ...

That wood is durable, used on long-ago factory and warehouse floors before becoming the go-to for basketball courts. Maintenance is fairly simple: generally an annual surface abrading to affix a ...