I have a question for people who are basketball fans,/and know a lot about the sport.

[Stuart G]

Short background of this issue...I went to the gym to use the track. The track is about 40 feet above the gym floor..A person walks around the track to get some exercise, while people down on the gym floor are playing basketball. You can watch them as you walk around. I hope you understand what I am describing.
(11 laps to the mile where I go) .......

.... So about an hour ago, I tried to do my walk around the track. On the gym floor there were 2 fellows playing basketball. They were just doing some shooting and dribbling, Moving back and forth and working the ball across the court and taking a few shots. These were the only two on the entire floor. It is a very large gym with a couple of courts, one next to the other..

Here is the point....There was an incredible loud squeaking coming from one of the players. In going to that track and gym, for 20 years, literally several thousand times..(I need to walk around..in the winter this is a great place to walk..safe and warm in northern Illinois where I live) I HAVE NEVER HEARD A SOUND LIKE THAT BEFORE...NEVER..

I reported this to the health club which is down the hall about a hundred feet from the track in a totally different room away from the gym where the noise was. The person I talked to said it was the ..."shoes" and it is common for basketball players...

I have been there before people are playing ball, and have never heard that. I have gone at different times of the day. the gym is open from 5am to 10pm for walkers and runners on the track and people playing ball on the gym floor........I repeat, ............I have never heard a sound like that before...loud horrible squeaking ..coming from one of the players, and the sound reverberated through the entire area. You could hear it everywhere in the gym and the track that was built way above the gym floor...................

My question for you is this....was I being told the truth.. ? Do basketball shoes make such a loud sound. The person I talked to said, yes, they do and if I was to go to a game, I would hear that..I asked was that..."new"? The person said that was very common and has been going on for years... Again..was I being told the truth about "basketball shoes?"......The noise was so bad, that I doubt that could be true. But here I am..asking you who have been to lots of games and know the score...and ...if you got this far...

........THANK YOU...for reading this..I appreciate your knowledge and the time you took to read this..

Stuart G

[tazkcmo]

1. You can hear it

On TV broadcast games and yes, new shoes make a louder squeak.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Oh yeah, that's been going on for a long time.

It has to do with the lamination on the court and the material on the bottom of basketball shoes. The volume level can increase or decrease depending on how old the court and how old the shoes are.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. There are 3 DEAFENING sounds on a basketball court

1. new shoes on properly maintained floor

2. LeBron James breaking toward the basket

3. Steph Curry pulling up from almost 30 feet to shoot a 3 pointer

[Hoyt]

5. Once you get used to it, it's a nice sound.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Think It's The Shoes Stuart

Geez, we heard that even in the old Chuck Taylor days, and the Converse shoes we wore in HS. (They were the only company that made a brown and gold shoe. We didn't get them free or anything. They just matched the uniforms.)

I think you were told the truth.

[brush]

7. Chucks were de rigueur back in day in pick-up games. I wasn't a...

Celtic fan but low cut, black Chuck Taylors were most desirable.