It's one of the most exciting highlights to see in basketball — a player goes up for a big dunk, there's a pop, and the glass backboard is shattered. When it happens, the crowd goes wild, the ...

According to Larry Hunter, the act of banking a basketball off the backboard and into the hoop is becoming a lost art. The head coach of the men's basketball team at Western Carolina University in ...

Artist Victor Solomon is bringing beauty to basketball with his Literally Balling project, which features backboards made of stained glass and gold and crystal nets hung from gold-plated rims. The ...

Shaquille O'Neal was just an incoming NBA rookie when he first shattered a backboard as a member of the Orlando Magic. It was during a friendly game with sportscaster Ahmad Rashad for NBA Inside Stuff ...

Huupe has opened pre-orders on a $4,000 smart basketball hoop, complete with shot tracking, interactive training guides, remote player vs player challenges, and an enormous high-def screen for a ...

LaMelo Ball is one of the most creative players in the NBA. He proved it again with one of the craziest passes of the year — a rocket off the glass to himself, setting up a chain reaction of further ...

Engineer Shane Wighton has published a great video to his YouTube channel, detailing how he created a robotic basketball backboard that allows you to sink every shot. Watch the demonstration video ...

The first player to be drafted into the NBA directly from high school, Darryl Dawkins began his professional basketball career in 1975 for the Philadelphia Sixers. At 6 10 and 260 lbs., the ...