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by grenoire 1214 days ago
Any videos of a game with this ball?
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Not a game, but this was linked in the comments: https://youtu.be/JC02e5dcvZw

It bounces fairly high and clearly has a bit of heft to the design. IANABBP, but looks good to me!

For those people hitting a geo-block on the above link, this one worked for me in AU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRoHKpmcRS0

It's hard to tell from the limited actual bouncing/etc in the clip, but it looks like it's lighter and has less bounce than a regulation ball. Still seems to bounce crazily well for something 3D printed and without air pressure inside it.

I'd be very excited to see this become a thing for balls in general if they can make them even close to existing basketball/soccer/etc balls. I doubt we'd ever see them in professional sports for tradition-reasons but for amateur/home fun I think it makes a lot of sense and for that market they don't need to be "perfect".

IANABBP

I am not a basketball... player? person?

IANA NBPA M(ember)