Shattered Backboards

[Bentley]

In the video of Shaq's dunks, the rim he broke in the gym was at my uncle Bob's gym in Los Angeles. He was there for an interview. Breaking the rim was a setup. And they had no hoop at one end for almost a month. Nobody was very happy about that.

[Bentley]

Was just going to mention the same game Bentley. That poor kid from Providence that he dunked over has to have nightmares about that.

"Send it in Jerome!!"

[Bentley]

Basketball rim wisdom

[Ricardo del Rio]

The guy said to Shaq, "Is that all you got?"

[RoyalShock]

Nice thread idea. I was just thinking about this earlier, and have thought about it from time to time.

The last time I saw a shattered backboard was when my dad, my cousin, and I went to an NBA preseason game at the roundhouse. I think it was the Nuggets vs the Kings, and I was probably around 10 years old. Someone shattered one of the backboards, they said it was going to take like 45 minutes to clean up, and we ended up leaving. Haha..

A friend and I were sitting about mid-way up behind that basket. Two guys (I thought it was Dikembe Mutombo and a teammate, but someone earlier said it was Olden Polynice) both grabbed the rim on a put-back dunk. The backboard never had a chance.

Wasn't that also a game that Cliff Levingston was supposed to play in for the Nuggets but didn't? I think it was circa 1994?

[Anthroshock]

A friend and I were sitting about mid-way up behind that basket. Two guys (I thought it was Dikembe Mutombo and a teammate, but someone earlier said it was Olden Polynice) both grabbed the rim on a put-back dunk. The backboard never had a chance.

Wasn't that also a game that Cliff Levingston was supposed to play in for the Nuggets but didn't? I think it was circa 1994?

100% certain in was Polynice.

I think the Kings were there because Mitch Richmond was still with the team. I don't remember Cliff being with Denver.

[Bentley]

The guy said to Shaq, "Is that all you got?"

Given today's fitness/science diet, he would make Howard, Queen James et al look like baby shrimp.

[RoyalShock]

100% certain in was Polynice.

I think the Kings were there because Mitch Richmond was still with the team. I don't remember Cliff being with Denver.

Given my memory, I'm about 95% certain I'm probably 83% wrong, give or take 10%.

I still had a remnant of KSU fandom at that time, so maybe it was Richmond I was thinking had a local (or semi-local) connection.

[RoyalShock]

McDuffie had a connection with Dawkins:

Markis McDuffie @ThatMcDuffieKid
R.I.P to one of my mentors/coaches, he was a great guy who gave me tons of advice, and he taught me a lot of things #RIPChocolateThunder

[rrshock]

Didn't Darrin Williams break one in HS? So did his teammate Manny Dies. I believe they both had multiple broken backboards.

[Kel Varnsen]

The second one, the one in the gym...

...that was on an interview/feature with Ahmad Rashad for Inside Stuff. I was wasting time on YouTube the other day watching Game 7 of the 1992 ECSF between the Bulls/Knicks and they showed it. It was kinda funny. Shaq was a once in a generation type of player.

[molly jabali]

WAAAAAY back in the day, played two years of Juco ball...at the end of every practice, we did a drill like many do in warm ups where everyone tips and the last dunks...on this particular day, the guy who always made the last tip made it a little too high and our dunker(6'8 AND with ups) went to get it and pulled the rim out out crashing glass everywhere...including his prodigious Afro(early70s)....our team went nuts...and our coach, 6'6' himself, spent the next 30 minutes pulling glass out of our teammate's hair...loved it!

btw...we had no replacement backboard so for the next 5 days, all practices were on one end!

[ShockerEngineer]

Olden Polynice with the backboard breaker.

I don't know the date, but I also recall that game. The backboard shattering, I believe it was the south one.

Ha, awesome. It's great you guys remember some of those details. I guess my memory of it isn't as fuzzy as I initially thought, because I was fairly sure it was the south goal, as well.

[Kung Wu]

WAAAAAY back in the day, played two years of Juco ball...at the end of every practice, we did a drill like many do in warm ups where everyone tips and the last dunks...on this particular day, the guy who always made the last tip made it a little too high and our dunker(6'8 AND with ups) went to get it and pulled the rim out out crashing glass everywhere...including his prodigious Afro(early70s)....our team went nuts...and our coach, 6'6' himself, spent the next 30 minutes pulling glass out of our teammate's hair...loved it!

btw...we had no replacement backboard so for the next 5 days, all practices were on one end!

Wait a minute. I believe that means you are grandfathered in under prior eligibility rules and have TWO YEARS REMAINING!