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backboard or back
board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Backboard may
refer to:
Backboard (basketball),
equipment used in
basketball Backboard (tennis)...
- 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
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
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...
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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...
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ambulance staff, as well as li****uards and ski patrollers. Historically,
backboards were also used in an
attempt to "improve the posture" of
young people...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
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basketball equipment,
consisting of the rim and net. It
hangs from the
backboard. The
first basket was a
peach basket installed by
James Naismith. The...
