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2. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   A backboard is a piece of basketball equipment. It is a raised vertical board with an attached basket consisting of a net suspended from a hoop. It is made of a flat, rigid piece of, often Plexiglas or tempered glass which also has the properties of safety glass when accidentally shattered .

3. Backboard shattering - Wikipedia

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   A backboard shattering (also known as backboard breaking or backboard smash) is an accident or stunt in basketball. It occurs when a player performs a slam dunk with sufficient force to shatter the tempered glass of the backboard , often causing the hoop to break off as well.

4. 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 ...

5. Basketball - Wikipedia

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   Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...

6. How a tiny basketball court in Italy helped mold Kobe Bryant ...

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   Obsessed with basketball at a young age, Bryant didn’t have much interest in school while living in Reggio Emilia. Bryant's youth basketball team poses for a picture in the early 1990s in Reggio ...

7. Breakaway rim - Wikipedia

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   Breakaway rims were invented in the mid-1970s and are now an essential element of high-level basketball. In the early days of basketball, dunking was considered ungentlemanly, and was rarely used outside of practice or warm-up drills. A broken backboard or distorted rim could delay a game for hours.