The development history of indoor basketball court wooden flooring is a microcosm of the continuous progress of basketball sports towards more professional and safer direction. In the early days when basketball was just invented, people did not have special sports floors. At that time, people only laid simple wooden planks on the indoor concrete ground, which had no elastic buffer structure at all, and the main purpose was to avoid the dust on the ground staining the players’ clothes. The foot feel of that kind of floor was extremely hard, and athletes were very vulnerable to joint injuries in the game, and the floor was easy to deform and crack.

With the gradual popularization of basketball in the 1920s and 1930s, people began to realize that the ground condition has a huge impact on the sports state of athletes. At this time, the first generation of real special basketball wooden floors began to appear. People added a simple wooden keel structure under the wooden planks, which made the floor have a certain buffering performance. Although the structure was relatively simple, it was a revolutionary progress at that time, which greatly reduced the probability of athletes’ injuries in the game.

After entering the 1960s and 1970s, with the development of material mechanics testing technology, people began to carry out systematic research on the mechanical properties of basketball court floors. The concept of professional sports floor performance indicators was formally put forward, and the complete multi-layer structure system from moisture-proof layer, elastic keel, load-bearing base board to sports surface board was gradually formed. The surface paint treatment process also began to move towards specialization, and the special sports paint with controllable friction coefficient replaced the ordinary wooden wax in the past.

In the past 20 years, with the maturity of wood modification technology and precision construction technology, the performance of indoor basketball court wooden flooring has reached an unprecedented height. People can accurately control every performance parameter of the floor according to the needs of the sport, and the safety and sports experience have been qualitatively improved. Looking back at this history, we can see that the evolution of basketball court flooring has always been around one core: to create a safer and more comfortable sports environment for athletes.