Breaking the backboard with a dunk?

[Leander]

S. O' Neal did this a few times in his 1st season or something. HOW can you break the backboard? Was he the only player who did this?

Did they build new backboards that cannot be broken because of Shaq's rookie season? Or why didn't he break the backboard in the last seasons? I saw a powerful dunk on CNN today where the really pushed the rim down a few inches. Is the rim more stable now and would have broken years ago?

[Andrew]

Chuck Connors was the first one to break a backboard, though he didn't do it with a dunk. Darryl Dawkins shattered a couple of backboards in the NBA as well as when he went to Europe after his NBA career. It was because of Dawkins they developed the more dunk-resistant backboards/hoops they use today though as Dawkins himself noted, if you hit them from the side they can still be broken with the right amount of force.

[Doobie]

I wondered what happened with the games after backboards were broken . Were the games delayed? If they were , how long?

[Andrew]

The Magic/Suns game was delayed about 45 minutes when Shaq brought the house down, if I recall correctly.

[Amphatoast]

any videos of this?? id love to see that. I been googling but no results

[hipn]

Didn't Shaq break it during the 2004 ALLSTAR games in LA?

[cyanide]

Didn't Shaq break it during the 2004 ALLSTAR games in LA?

I don't think he did if I remember correctly.

[Kemp]

any videos of this?? id love to see that. I been googling but no results

This dunk was against the Nets. I was wondering did Shaq pay for the damage.

[Riot]

I remember reading something that said Shaq had to pay for the backboard after the game. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, just don't quote me so I can edit my post.

[streetballaz1]

any videos of this?? id love to see that. I been googling but no results

This dunk was against the Nets. I was wondering did Shaq pay for the damage.

lol,the dunk is so funny
anyone got others?

[Andrew]

Didn't Shaq break it during the 2004 ALLSTAR games in LA?

It looked like it was going to happen on one dunk but no, he hasn't broken a backboard (at least in an NBA game) since 1993.

[jwin]

there was one worse than that, against phoenix i think, when he was still with orlando. he broke the whole system not just the backboard. it looked like that at-at from star wars that went down falling forward. they had to roll the whole support out of the arena and bring in a new one and put it up. i'm pretty sure it was orl vs. phoenix in case anyone wants to search.

[Kbryant8]

there was one worse than that, against phoenix i think, when he was still with orlando. he broke the whole system not just the backboard. it looked like that at-at from star wars that went down falling forward. they had to roll the whole support out of the arena and bring in a new one and put it up. i'm pretty sure it was orl vs. phoenix in case anyone wants to search.

Yep i have saw that
All basket system falled apart

[Malfa]

like a few year ago shaq dunked it..and pulled the hoop like out of the ground or something

[Andrew]

All three occasions (New Jersey, Boston and Phoenix) were in his rookie year.

[J@3]

I think the Shaq/New Jersey one is more impressive than Dawkins'. Just because Shaq pulled the entire thing down whereas Dawkins pretty much just broke the glass from memory.

[Matt]

they just roll out the replacement system if someones breaks it.

[Andrew]

I think the Shaq/New Jersey one is more impressive than Dawkins'. Just because Shaq pulled the entire thing down whereas Dawkins pretty much just broke the glass from memory.

Dawkins' first board-shattering dunk looks great in slow motion though as it completely shattered and the shards showered to the floor. The shot from the baseline is the best, with the board intact one moment, turning translucent as it starts to break then completely shattering.

[H Rock]

Didn't Shaq break it during the 2004 ALLSTAR games in LA?

I believe he hung on it and it started to sag, But fortunately, he let go just in time.

[cklitsie]

Two that I know of that haven't been mentioned yet:

Darvin Ham
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FEK ... WZ7JX5T8R9

Dwight Howard

Dwight cocked the ball back with two hands, tapping it against the back of his neck. His hands and the ball fired forward in one swift, smooth movement, and with a scream that sounded like he meant it, Dwight dunked.

BOOOOOM!

When a backboard shatters, it sounds sort of similar to a gunshot or a car backfiring. Startled by the noise, Dwight hung onto the rim with both hands, and, as though it too was scared, the rim obediently folded and pointed itself at the ground. Dwight rode it down a few inches before he realized what was happening, and then released his grip so he wouldn't bring the whole thing down on himself. He crashed to the ground and landed on his back.

http://www.slamonline.com/magazine/feat ... index.html

[J@3]

I think certain rings in high school would be easier to break. I mean at my local rec center I could probably pull down their entire roof.

[cyanide]

"And it shall (and) will come to pass that Dwight Howard II will stand head and shoulders over 2004 prospects in the name of Jesus. Will he do it? Amen."

Also, "And it shall (and) will come to pass that Dwight Howard II will be the Number 1 draft pick in the NBA draft."

Freaking religious fundamentalists got it wrong again! Ha!

[Drex]

I love how in that Shaq' dunk he gets hit by the shotclock

[cklitsie]

Freaking religious fundamentalists got it wrong again! Ha!

How? He got picked #1 and definately was the best HS-er in 2004.
I believe they also said he had to become ROY, so they were wrong after all. But he succeeded in what you listed..

[John WB]

Didn't Shaq break it during the 2004 ALLSTAR games in LA?

No. Definately not.

I remember when in NBA Jam the video game where you could break the backboard after a lot of hard dunks. Came out around the time it was still happening in games back in the 90s I guess.