The reason is because you can selling naming rights to the floor. You can put a statue outside but he won't name the court Johnny Orr court until he is sure he can't sell the licensing rights.
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Utah Utes, Illinois Illini. The University of Pennsylvania thought about following this pattern by calling themselves the Pennsylvania Pencils. However, they were afraid their students would start chanting "We're No. 2"
"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." - Charles Barkley
Naming the floor after Johnny has been discussed on here before, and it was basically agreed upon that it makes too much sense for the athletic department to actually do it.
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