The NBA Development League Has A New Basketball Design

by Scott Schroeder on Oct 13, 2025 12:00 PM EDT in Ridiculous-osity

So this is the new D-League basketball.

Above is the NBA Development League's new basketball design, courtesy of Utah Flash team president Drew Sellers (via Twitter).

I don't know why it's been changed - I didn't even know they were planning a change - and therefore I'm not quite ready to know what to think about it (I hate change).

Instead, I'll open it up to the three regular readers of Ridiculous Upside ... so, what do you think?

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I didn’t vote.

Since I haven’t commented on here in like 6 months (so it seems) I figure I’ll just leave a comment about the basketball instead of just using y’all (RU) for invaluable and life-changing info, kay? ; )

I think it looks fine. It’s a just a basketball design. It’s not like changing the design will make the ball go farther, faster, more directly into the hoop or anything. It looks just fine. Change is good. You do change your clothes on a daily basis, right? Well, there you go. See, change is good, in fact, sometimes it’s downright necessary.

by BigSkyCat on Oct 13, 2025 12:17 PM EDT reply actions

A ball is a ball

by Rumble on Oct 13, 2025 3:24 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Oh Rumble

Remember when that one ball was a bad ball, though? When all of the players hated it? Sometimes balls are more complex than one might imagine.

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by Scott Schroeder on Oct 13, 2025 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions

But wasn't that a change in the material used...

and not the look of it (are the lines the only changes)? I can see how that would have a much larger impact than the placement of the black lines.

That said, I voted for the 6 times in 6 years part, because that certainly seems like what’s happened.

by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 13, 2025 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions

It was all different

But material was the biggest difference, yes.

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by Scott Schroeder on Oct 13, 2025 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions

exactly.

a ball is a ball. That is sort of what I was trying to say in my above comment as well, but now that I reread my comment, I realize that I failed miserably and my comment actually makes little sense and if it makes little sense to me, well, then I’m sure it makes absolutely no sense to the rest of you.

So yeah, scratch that and we’ll just go with yours — A ball is a ball. The change is no biggie. Just roll with it.

Oh, and now with this comment, we are up to 5 in this thread alone. Do all of us that commented here get cookies or something equally as neat?

by BigSkyCat on Oct 13, 2025 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions