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

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   The two types of backboard materials to know about for portable basketball goals is acrylic and polycarbonate (there's also glass, but glass is used for professional goals and is extremely rare on ...

3. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   It is usually rectangular as used in NBA, NCAA and international basketball. In recreational environments, a backboard may be oval or a fan-shape, particularly in non-professional games. The top of the hoop is 10 feet (3.05 m) above the ground. Regulation backboards are 6 feet (1.83 m) wide by 3.5 feet (1.07 m) tall.

4. Polycarbonate - Wikipedia

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   The characteristics of polycarbonate compare to those of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), but polycarbonate is stronger and will hold up longer to extreme temperature. Thermally processed material is usually totally amorphous, [ 7 ] and as a result is highly transparent to visible light , with better light transmission than many kinds ...

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. Homeless ‘lunatic’ shoves New Yorker, 76, after threatening ...

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   An ice pick-wielding homeless “lunatic” with a criminal history shoved an elderly man to the ground in Midtown Tuesday morning after threatening other people, police and the victim said.

7. Rim (basketball) - Wikipedia

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   Typical professional hoop with backboard. The rim is a piece of basketball equipment, the circular metal ring holding up the net. It hangs from the backboard. The rim had 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]