What happens if a player breaks the backboard

Despite currently being on a mission to secure back-to-back NBA titles for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kevin Love took on the unenviable task of completing First We Feast's 'Hot Ones' challenge, where celebrities are interviewed while consuming chicken wings with progressively spicier sauces to the point where it's borderline dangerous.

As Kevin Love sat down to test his tolerance for spicy food, we learned quite a bit about his background, such as the fact that he and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors were once teammates on a little-league baseball team, but we also learned the answer to a question we didn't even realise we wanted an answer to for some time Anyone who played NBA Jam as a youngster knows the thrill of shattering the backboard, and it's happened in the professional game on a number of occasions, but while an arena can just wheel in the replacement hoop and continue, it gets more difficult in the lower levels of the sport.

Kevin Love was a very big kid, so he managed to shatter a backboard while playing in High School. Aside from his peers probably thinking that this was the coolest thing they had ever seen, it turns out that the school actually tried to bill his family for the damage to the basket. That must have been some force he put behind that jump to shatter the backboard like that. On the rebound, Ham slams the ball back into the net causing the rim to bend and the glass to shatter on the backboard.

During this Jan. He misses, and the ball flies off to the right. However, between the force of the player's jump and how long he hung on to the basket after the failed dunk, he shattered the backboard and bent the rim, causing the game to be called, according to the description in this video.

In this old school video, Michael Jordan goes up to dunk the ball and ends up breaking the glass on the backboard, showering his opponents behind him in glass. In this high school basketball game, a player has a free shot at the net, and goes up for the dunk, showing off a bit as he does. He spins a full degrees, and then slams the ball into the net, demolishing the backboard in the process.

It seems the Shaq has had an affinity for breaking backboards throughout his career in the NBA. Here is yet another video of Shaq completely demolishing a backboard. You only have to pay for a broken backboard if you shoot it with a gun, climb a ladder and swing with a sledgehammer or other malicious acts.

Dunking and breaking the backboard would not be sufficient for a ' backboard destruction fee'. The reason they dont break any more is due to the break away rim it bends when a dunk happens and then springs back into postion also the rim isnt connected to the glass rather to the steel beams. Its clear why the nba wanted to avoid backboard shattering injuries aside it delays the game.

In the National Basketball Association NBA , shattering a backboard during a game is penalized with a non-unsportsmanlike conduct technical foul and a possible fine towards the player. The player may not be ejected, nor shall the foul count towards a player's total towards either ejection or suspension.

Who was the first NBA player to dunk? Bob Kurland. Did Michael Jordan break a backboard? Michael Jordan was pretty good at dunking basketballs, and it's become the symbol that represents him long since his playing have ended.

He once dunked so forcefully that he shattered a backboard during a Nike exhibition game in in Trieste, Italy. How much weight can an NBA rim hold? The first backboards appeared at the very end of the 19th century — and originally served to prevent the fans sitting in the stands above the ring from interfering with the course of the game. They were made from mesh or wood. Initially, the backboards were attached directly to the walls.

Since , backboards have been made of glass, and their fragility is increasingly being tested. The first backboard in the history of the league was destroyed on November 5, — the future actor Chuck Connors, then playing for the Boston Celtics , managed to break it with a regular throw.

It was pretty surprising because normally, backboards are broken as a result of a dunk. Not everyone succeeds in making basketball history in such an original way as Chuck Connors did. Apart from this episode with the backboard, he would have remained an unremarkable center, who did not even fully play his first season in BAA.

Like some other athletes who returned from the front after World War II, he played basketball only in the fall and winter, and already in mid-February, he began retraining as a baseball player.

This did not last long, however, because after being expelled from the Boston Celtics, he finally lost faith in his basketball talents.