While watching the CBS broadcast this afternoon of the Phoenix Mercury at Toronto Tempo WNBA game, I noticed what I think is an attractive shellac maple leaf filling in the area between the two three-point arcs (see following image from a social-media tweet).
It turns out, though, that this is not the expansion Tempo's full-time court. The team plays most of its home games at Toronto's 8,500-seat Coca-Cola Coliseum. The Coliseum court lacks the leaf and the areas between the three-point arcs and the keys are painted light blue.
The above-pictured design with the maple leaf and maroon arc-fills turns out to be for something called the Cross-Canada Series. As part of the series, the Tempo, as the WNBA's only current Canada-based team, will be playing two games each in Montreal and Vancouver. What we're seeing today is a special game played at Toronto's 19,800-seat Scotiabank Arena (home of the Raptors and Maple Leafs), at which the Cross-Canada floor apparently is being previewed.
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