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2. 5 Best Portable Basketball Hoops for Driveway Showdowns - AOL

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   IE Sports Basketball Hoop Outdoor Goal. This model from IE Sports will help save you some cash while still providing solid play. Its made with a 44-inch polycarbonate backboard, which is great ...

3. Breakaway rim - Wikipedia

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   Dwight Howard bends down the rim as he dunks the ball.. A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that contains a hinge and a spring at the point where it attaches to the backboard so that it can bend downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then quickly snaps back into a horizontal position when the player releases it.

4. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   Regulation backboards are 6 feet (1.83 m) wide by 3.5 feet (1.07 m) tall. All basketball rims (hoops) are 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter. The inner rectangle on the backboard is 24 inches (61 cm) wide by 18 inches (46 cm) tall, and helps a shooter determine the proper aim and banking for either a layup or distance shot. [1] [2]

5. Basket (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   Typical professional hoop (left) with backboard (right) The basket or hoop is a piece of basketball equipment, consisting of the rim and net. It hangs from the backboard. The first basket was a peach basket installed by James Naismith. [1] The bottom was eventually cut out of the basket, and the basket was eventually replaced with the metal rim ...

6. Rim (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   Typical professional hoop with backboard and net. A rim, also called a hoop, is a piece of basketball equipment in the form of a circular metal ring that supports the net. It hangs from the backboard. A professional rim has a diameter of 18 inches. [1] A slam dunk requires one to jump high enough to get his hand above or over the rim. [2]

7. Netball - Wikipedia

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   Netball differs in many ways from basketball, principally in the absence of the backboards from the hoop or goal ring and the prohibition of dribbling, bouncing, and running while in possession of the ball. Physical player contact is more controlled than in basketball.