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  2. Basket (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    Typical professional hoop (left) with backboard (right) The basket or hoop is a piece of basketball equipment, consisting of the rim and net. It hangs from the backboard. The first basket was a peach basket installed by James Naismith. [1] The bottom was eventually cut out of the basket, and the basket was eventually replaced with the metal rim ...

  3. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    It is usually rectangular as used in NBA, NCAA and international basketball. In recreational environments, a backboard may be oval or a fan-shape, particularly in non-professional games. The top of the hoop is 10 feet (3.05 m) above the ground. Regulation backboards are 6 feet (1.83 m) wide by 3.5 feet (1.07 m) tall.

  4. Rim (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    Typical professional hoop with backboard and net. A rim, also called a hoop, is a piece of basketball equipment in the form of a circular metal ring that supports the net. It hangs from the backboard. A professional rim has a diameter of 18 inches. [1] A slam dunk requires one to jump high enough to get his hand above or over the rim. [2]

  5. LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey had fans ... - AOL

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    Mulkey, 62, roamed the sidelines in a black sweater that featured an image of a basketball and a backboard, with a rim around her midsection and strands of a basketball net hanging off it.

  6. Why Ole Miss football players dunking on a basketball hoop ...

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    Kiffin even brought the hoop inside Ole Miss' team meeting room to spice things up at preseason practice. He pitted offensive coaches against defensive coaches in a spirited 2-on-2 game at the ...

  7. Basketball - Wikipedia

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    Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...

  8. Look: High School Basketball Game Postponed After Hoop Collapses

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    The hoop collapse occurred when Ramsey was leading Carver 61-44 with just four minutes remaining. The two programs plan to finish the game next Thursday, as Ramsay basketball announced via Twitter ...

  9. James Naismith - Wikipedia

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    In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets: "When Mr. Stubbins brot up the peach baskets to the gym I secured them ...