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up backboard or back board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Backboard may refer to: Backboard (basketball), equipment used in basketball Backboard (tennis)...

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...

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...

A tennis backboard is a simple wall usually made from some kind of fiberboard and located at a tennis court. It should have a tennis net either drawn...

basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting...

reducing the shattering of backboards. In 1979, Erving's teammate and center Darryl Dawkins twice shattered NBA backboards with dunks leading to a quickly-enacted...

fifteen feet (4.6 m) from the backboard, prior to which most gymnasiums placed one twenty feet (6.1 m) from the backboard. From 1924, players that received...

from the parent sport is the court; below the padded basketball rim and backboard are four trampolines set into the floor which serve to propel players...

or (varying at certain levels of the sport) after it has touched the backboard and has a chance of going in the hoop. Goaltending in this context defines...

Darryl Dawkins broke two backboards: one at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium on November 13, 1979, and a second backboard 23 days later at the Philadelphia...

the backboard, basket ring or another player. g. A player is not allowed to be the first to touch his own pass unless the ball touches his backboard, basket...

is located within the three-point arc at 15 feet from the plane of the backboard. A foul shot is worth 1 point, but if a shot is made from the foul line...

Glossary of terms Index of articles Rules Game play Strategy Equipment Backboard Ball Basket Rim (Breakaway rim) Court Glass Half court Key Net Whistle...

basketball, an air ball is an unblocked shot that misses the basket, rim and backboard entirely. The Oxford English Dictionary cites earliest printed use of...

hockey goals also include sideboards and a backboard, which stand 50 cm (20 in) from the ground. The backboard runs the full 3.66 m (12.0 ft) width of the...

large red numerals below the game clock on a display mounted atop each backboard. In some collegiate and amateur facilities this display might be located...

Glossary of terms Index of articles Rules Game play Strategy Equipment Backboard Ball Basket Rim (Breakaway rim) Court Glass Half court Key Net Whistle...

shots. backboard A flat, rigid, vertical board situated behind the rim of the basket and to which the basket is attached. Regulation backboards are made...

points and 9.1 rebounds in his career. This was the last season of the backboard height set at 48 in (1.219 m). It would be shortened 6 in (15.2 cm) next...

middle or near the baseline. The purpose of using the backboard is to try to hit the backboard at an angle, thus slowing the speed of the ball and increasing...