Should Russell Westbrook show up unannounced at UCLA’s basketball practice facility to work out on the court named in his honor, he need not worry about finding a place to shower.
The $35-million Mo Ostin Basketball Center includes an alumni locker room, complete with removable name plates above the wooden locker doors.
If success is in the details, as legendary Bruins coach John Wooden liked to say, then the team’s new digs represent quite the triumph.
“It’s incredible,” center Thomas Welsh said recently. “Everything about that place is insane.”
Planning for the 35,000-square-foot facility involved three weeks of discussions just about acoustics.