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Basketball

brush

(59,162 posts) Mon Jul 1, 2019, 08:48 PM Jul 2019

Anybody else wonder how the NBA strengthened the rims since the... [View all]

Chocolate Thunders days of rims and glass backboards giving way from powerful players dunking on them?

Now 250-300lb guys dunk and hang on the rim and nothing gives way. How the hell do those rims, embedded in glass, or is it plexiglass, survive this?

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Anybody else wonder how the NBA strengthened the rims since the... [View all] brush Jul 2019 OP

I know this will be considered blasphemy, but i've always wondered hlthe2b Jul 2019 #1

It was not "legal" until the mid 70s LastDemocratInSC Jul 2019 #2

In college ball dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. mpcamb Jul 2019 #7

Probably something like Lexan... ret5hd Jul 2019 #3

Since many players are close to 7ft in height, why not elevating the basket six inches? YOHABLO Jul 2019 #4

I found the specs for the backboards... jmowreader Jul 2019 #5

Thank you. This explains it. There was a lot of engineering that went into making the "goal"... brush Jul 2019 #6

Send it in Jerome! The Polack MSgt Aug 2019 #8