A basketball net is an icositetragon

Someone made this really cool graphic of a basketball net, as viewed from above.

I love how the net forms these shapes and patterns. Especially that shape on the very inside of the pattern. That would be the bottom part of the net.

Notice how the bottom part of a basketball net has 24 sides.

A shape with 24 sides is called an icositetragon. A basketball net is an icositetragon!

I might be the first person on the internet to say a basketball net is the shape of an icositetragon. I only say I might be the first person, because I did a Google search for: icositetragon basketball; and there wasn’t anything related to a basketball net having 24 sides. I’m guessing there HAS to be something out there, and Google just isn’t showing it in their results.

Icositetragon is a long confusing word. Let’s break it down to its Greek components

• icosi- = twenty
  From Greek eíkosi (εἴκοσι), meaning “20.”
• tetra- = four
  From Greek téttares / tetra (τέσσαρες / τετρα), meaning “4.”
• -gon = angle
  From Greek gōnía (γωνία), meaning “angle” or “corner.”

Therefore, icosi + tetra + gon = “twenty-four angles”

In this particular case, since the sides go inward, this is a star icositetragon. Let’s isolate the star icositetragon.

If you stare at the shape enough, it looks like it’s made of three overlapping squares. To help you see the three squares, let’s put three colored squares on top (magenta, yellow, and green).

That looks pretty cool! Like some sort of 90s logo. If an NBA team wants to go 90s retro, they could implement three overlapping squares into the logo. It’ll have that 90s look, but it will also be symbolically tied to a basketball net.

Here’s how a logo like that might look (logo generated by ChatGPT)