Darryl Dawkins has broken 2 backboards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NBA regulation backboards are 6 feet wide by 42 inches tall. The inner square on the backboard is 24 inches wide by 18 inches tall.
Backboards are the boards on which the baskets for the sport "basketball" are attached. The backboards are fixed on a frame at the height of 2 meters and 90 centimeters.
The standard basketball backboard measures 1/2 inch thick by 42 inches high by 72 inches wide. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), their backboards include a rectangle in the center that measures 1.5 feet high and 2 feet wide.
The backboard shall be a rectangle measuring 6' horizontally and 3 1/2' vertically. The front surface shall be flat and transparent.www.Basketball.com/nba/rules/rule1.shtml
Glass has better rebound action
You can find acrylic basketball backboards online here: http://www.hitrunscore.com/acrylic-basketball-hoops.html
the backboard was invented in the 1900s
Jostens
NBA
this makes a lot of sense...
yes. as a matter of fact he broke backboards doing it.