The wooden floor that was used to stage the first ever basketball match at an American football venue is to be removed as the stadium reverts to its normal use.
Having been put in place to enable the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas to swap end zones for hoops, the large jigsaw was loaded back into trucks and placed into storage, the Dallas Morning News reports.
The paper added that the wooden flooring will be reinstalled in February to stage an all-star NBA match.
After that, however, it will no longer be used for basketball, with the components sold as used flooring, chief executive of Horner Sports Flooring Doug Hamar stated.
Explaining why it will be well into its lifespan after the two sporting occasions, he said: "It's not the players running up and down and dribbling the ball, it's the conversion."
Once installed, hardwood flooring can be "incredibly hard wearing", design expert Naoimh Tuohy wrote in the Herald.ie earlier this month.
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