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jmowreader

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5. I found the specs for the backboards...

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Fri Jul 19, 2019, 01:07 AM

Jul 2019

https://www.spaldingequipment.com/filesimages/SpecLibrary/Basketball/Glass-Backboards/413000-SuperGlass-Pro.pdf

This is how they survive when in the old days they didn't: The rim (the official name for it is the goal) is no longer attached to the glass, and the rim assembly is designed to flex. The backboard has a metal frame around it. The frame is attached to the backstop assembly - the big metal apparatus that holds the hoop up. There are long bolts passing through the goal bracket, then through the backboard frame, and from there into the backstop arm.

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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