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The backboard became part of Basketball in 1893 because before backboards, the players would run into the wall when they tried to do a lay up.(back then, the hoops just stuck out of the wall). so then, they decided to make a backboard and stick it out from the wall so the players could do lay ups and not crash into the walls and hurt themselves.

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Basketball backboards were invented in 1894 to help prevent spectators from interfering in the game. They were designed to stop people from throwing anything that would interfere with the basket.

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because they were needed to put in back of the basket ball hoop and they found something hard to put there and that's how the back board was invented

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