Basketball LED Video Boards & Gym Displays

Indoor basketball displays follow different rules from outdoor stadium boards. The audience is close, the lighting is controlled, and the structure is a roof rather than a foundation. Specifying one like an outdoor board wastes money in some places and falls short in others.

Pixel pitch matters indoors in a way it does not outdoors

In a gym the front row is roughly fifteen feet from the display and the back row is rarely more than a hundred. At that distance the eye resolves individual pixels, so a coarse outdoor pitch that looks fine in a football stadium reads as visibly blocky in a gym.

This is the one place where paying for a tighter pitch is straightforwardly worth it. Brightness, meanwhile, works the other way: indoor displays need far less of it than outdoor ones, and specifying stadium-grade brightness for a gym is money spent on something nobody will see.

Center-hung, end wall, or scorer’s table

There are three common configurations, and they answer different questions:

• Center-hung — a four-sided display over center court. Every seat gets a face, and it creates the arena feel programs are usually chasing. It is the most demanding option structurally, because the roof has to carry it.
• End wall — a single large display on the wall behind a basket. Structurally simple and usually the best value, with the tradeoff that seats at sharp angles get a worse view.
• Scorer’s table — a long, low ribbon display along the table. Excellent sponsor inventory and highly visible on broadcast, and it works alongside either of the above rather than replacing them.

Our founder installed a four-sided center-hung LED video board with a sideline scorer’s table display at Coppell ISD before launching LPCREATIVE, running full game production with shot clock integration, player stats, and dynamic sponsor rotations. An indoor gymnasium video board for Smith County High School in Carthage, Tennessee is in progress.

Structural load is the first question, not the last

A center-hung display is a substantial weight hanging over a court full of people. Whether your roof structure can carry it, and what reinforcement it needs, determines whether that configuration is even on the table. This gets answered early, because the answer sometimes changes the entire design.

Shot clock and game system integration

A basketball display has to agree with the shot clock and the game clock, every time, with no lag. Our basketball control software handles the game clock, shot clock at 24, 30, or 35 seconds, period and overtime tracking, team fouls with bonus and double-bonus states, timeouts, and per-player foul and point tracking.

It also drives the parts that make a gym feel like an arena: player-of-the-game panels, lower-third overlays with live stats, roster photo galleries, and sponsor rotations that run without anyone remembering to trigger them.

Budget

Gym displays are typically smaller than stadium boards but tighter pitch, so the per-square-foot figure runs above our published $210 outdoor planning number. A single end-wall display in a high school gym commonly lands in the same range as our $45,000 to $102,000 packages depending on size and pitch; a four-sided center-hung with a scorer’s table is a materially larger project. Tell us your gym’s dimensions and seating and we will give you a real number.