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Walmart.com has
NBA Official 54" Wall-Mounted Basketball Hoop with Polycarbonate Backboard on sale for
$99.
Shipping is free
Thanks to community member
aepro for sharing this deal.
Features: - Officially Licensed NBA 54" Wall-Mounted Basketball Hoop
- Backboard Material: Durable Polycarbonate
- Backboard Size: 54" x 33"
- Steel framed backboard
- Wall-mounted with 2.5' overhang
- Mounts to any sturdy wall including wood, brick, steel, concrete etc. (anchors included)
- Adjustable anywhere between 7.5' and 10'
- Laser etched guidelines, in 6" increments for precise adjustments
- Adjust height using the Unlimited Crank System
- Designed for indoor and outdoor residential play
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It's probably about the minimum quality you'd want, but worth $99. Mounting it was a PITA, not helped by the fact that I installed it under an overhang on my garage, so I had to build out the wall with 4x6" lumber so that it could extend upward to 10 feet. I also had to reinforce the mounting locations inside of the garage. No fault of the product, however. Just keep in mind that this may be hard to adapt to your situation. The project took me a whole Saturday, which included a trip to the hardware store for 6 carriage bolts, washers and nylocks.
I spend a good amount of time measuring and prepping and by the end, I got it mounted to where it is adjustable between 10' and 7'2". Not bad.
Things I like:
1. Use of nylock nuts for all fasteners.
2. Nice beefy bracket that secures to the wall (1/4" stock angle iron).
3. The provided template for the mounting bracket.
Things I don't like:
1. Poor quality adjustment mechanism that is definitely going to break at some point. I'll probably just slather more moly grease on the screw inside and hope for the best.
2. Backboard needs additional reinforcement at the sides; it has too much "give" with the large area of unsupported plastic sheet.
3. Banking square on the backboard is misplaced and much too small.
Overall, I'm quite happy with the deal!
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I've enjoyed using it so far, definitely worth $100.
I mounted this on the rear wall of our San Francisco house (ie small 25'x25' back yard), and it looks and works well. The house was built in 1947, and the studs are not spaced evenly across the rear wall, so I needed to build something similar to @amerwaleed setup here, except I built a complete square with 2x4 wood to give myself more options to bolt into studs. My rear wall has slightly angled thin wood panels, so the 2x4s also helped level out the mounting surfaces while also giving me space to secure to studs. Needed a new set of stainless lag bolts [4-4.5"?] from Home Depot to secure the 2x4s into the studs. The Walmart videos and manuals were junk, so I had to guess at a lot of measurements, but I got it to install correctly to match the height adjustment to the 8'-10' range. If I remember correctly, I set the adjuster to make the rim even with the bottom mounting bracket, and then the rim should be 8' from the ground at that point, because the bottom of the mounting frame seemed to show matched to 8' from the ground based on some picture I saw somewhere.
I did the install solo. I needed two 6' ladders, especially for the last part of the job. First, I mounted the 2x4 wood stud frame (painted with black weatherproof primer), then I mounted the black metal frame, then I added the black arms, adjusters, and backboard mount. Finally, I lifted the backboard (with the rim, which provided something to hold and something to balance on) onto the tops of the two ladders while I secured the first bolt to the frame. The rest was easy peasy after the first bolt.
Took several hours overall for the painting, mounting, leveling, installation. I'm a fairly avid DIYer with a bunch of tools, but you don't need any advanced tools for this install.