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Yeah it's a bit of a weird way the article puts it. Measuring in square meters but then referencing basket ball courts which are almost nonexistent in Europe :)
by wkat4242 2y ago
Yeah it's a bit of a weird way the article puts it. Measuring in square meters but then referencing basket ball courts which are almost nonexistent in Europe :). They should have used a football (but soccer, not the American kind) field. Though in that case I guess it will be a fairly small division of one too which makes it sound smaller than it is.
I honestly have no idea how big a basketball court is.
- jajko 2y agoWhat do you mean they don't exist. I see them everywhere, indoor, outdoor, also every single school gym regardless of level is also a basketball court. I've lived in 3 countries here east & west Europe and this is valid across different places and cultures.
- wkat4242 2y agoHuh weird I've never seen one in Netherlands or Spain. In the Netherlands it's not popular at all though we have a similar thing that is ("korfbal"). My school did have these basketball boards but we never used them and I'm pretty sure the room was not sized for them either.
- dustincoates 2y agoSoccer fields don't have a standard size, however, so you're not going to be able to give a true comparison.
- jchw 2y agoI'd love to say that my comment was some commentary on the weirdness of the units, but really, it just stuck out to me, and I thought it'd be funny if I treated "gridiron football field" as the imperial system equivalent unit to the metric "basketball court" unit. I rarely make comments on HN that are mostly just humorous and not actually intending to be on-topic... but every once a year or so.
- Tyrannosaur 2y agoI don't know where you are in Europe, but from my experience basketball is popular in France and courts are everywhere.