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Basketball swish rims12/19/2023 ![]() “(I noticed) pretty soon after I started covering the league a decade ago,” Lowe told me. He bemoaned hearing grunts and growls from under-the-basket players like Salah Mejri or Zaza Pachulia. “I have to get this out: The rim microphones are too loud,” ESPN’s Zach Lowe wrote in 2018. It’s not just players who have noticed the Dallas arena amplifies these ball-on-rim interactions louder than others. Bertans has had friends text him, amused, when his Latvian or Russian curses sneak through uncensored. If you’ve ever noticed a television broadcast’s audio briefly cut out during a basketball game, it’s likely those microphones caught something inappropriate that was about to be aired. “My mom says the basketball court is the only place I can cuss,” Finney-Smith said, and he takes full advantage. ![]() It’s true: While the swishes might be most pleasant, these microphones capture every sound around the rim. “You only notice it when you missing,” Dorian Finney-Smith said. These sounds don’t need help echoing through empty gyms, but when the American Airlines Center fills with more than 19,000 fans, and when the decibel levels increase for the postseason atmosphere expected for Monday night’s Game 2, microphones are used to amplify the interaction between the 21-ounce ball and the 18-inch rim. Every basketball player knows the sounds of the court: swishes, clanks, bangs, rattles, squeaks. ![]() Most of them, if they have mics, it’s not even close.”īertans noticed years ago, playing for the San Antonio Spurs, long before he was traded to the Mavericks earlier this season. “Compared to other arenas, this is definitely the loudest one. “The swish and the sound, it’s one of the best feelings ever,” Davis Bertans said. And if you’re watching, you’ll eventually notice it, too. ![]()
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