Thornton sees growth potential for glass courts — already showing up in the NBA and internationally — as a tech-driven alternative to the sport's long-running hardwood foundation.

Men’s teams in San Antonio and the women in Tampa, Florida, can earn places in history on the same wood that has been the sport’s foundation ... was created on hardwood,” said Zach Riberdy ...

Hardwood has been the long-running foundation for basketball, but could the sport eventually find a home on glass. Chris Thornton loves talking about playing basketball on the most fragile ...

Chris Thornton loves talking about playing basketball on the most fragile-sounding of surfaces: glass. Thornton is managing director of the Americas division of ASB GlassFloor, a German company ...