Tuesday, May 28, 2024

DS Update: NBA Experience FAIL

What a debacle the NBA Experience was at Disney Springs West Side. It opened in August, 2019 and then was shuttered due to the covid-19 closures in early 2020. It never reopened after that. But you can't blame this big FAIL on covid. No, you can blame it on $34+tax admission prices to shoot some hoops. You can blame it on international visitors who don't care much about the NBA. You can blame it on very little interaction with actual NBA players.

Four years after closing, NBA Experience branding has finally been removed.

This is what it previously looked like during it's brief run.

The adjacent City Works bar & restaurant remains in business but the ticker tape display above it that often displayed sports scores is gone.

What that used to look like. You have to wonder why after NBA City at Universal CityWalk closed, Disney thought it could do better. We now know.....they couldn't.

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