Fun fact, why do basketball players sneakers squeak?

Rubber on wood?

Yeah.

I clicked on the story because I'm thinking, oh, that's a fun fact.

And the tread on your sneakers when you stop on wood, reverberates, waves happen on your sneakers. And the waves going really quick

all hit each other. And that's why you get that noise. In a study published Wednesday, this is a recent

finding here. The journal Nature, a shoe works hard to keep its grip.

Tiny sections of the soul change shape as they momentarily lose, then regain contact with the floor,

thousands of times per second at a frequency that matches the pitch of the loud squeak that we hear.

Now, when you get a brand new pair of shoes, just walking down the hall sometimes. Oh, yeah. They make no squeaky noise. I mean, that's part of the symphony of basketball. No one's bothered by squeaky shoes at a basketball game because you hear it all the time. You hear it all the time, right, right. I even heard it at that NBA game. And it was, you know, we're like seven rows up. Oh, you hear it all the time.

Yeah, you can hear it.

Right, right.

It comes over on the TV. Yeah. I really didn't wonder. I just assumed rubber on wood made that noise. Yeah. Which it does, but it's the, it gave you the more technical version of why. You gave them the click, so that's all they care about.

Grip patterns.

Yeah, what was that from?

Well, it's from the AP.

Yeah, it's a legit source.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a legit source. But you gave them the click, so that's all they care about. Grip patterns. Yeah, what was that from?

Well, it's from the AP.

It's a legit source.

Grip patterns of the soul may also play a role.

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