NBA Official 54" Wall-Mounted Basketball Hoop with Polycarbonate Backboard Expired

Growing up we had a goal attached to a maple tree. Would think cedar would be fine. Might get some sap on it from time to time. Not as bad as pine probably.

A hoop up is better than no hoop at all.

We had a dirt court until I was seven and dad poured concrete. Moved the big goal (reg park style type) around the tree to face the concrete. By 91', he installed an adjustable goal at one end of the "court" (~ 3pt range size) and we would tape record and slow motion our alley hoop dunks from the kitchen door.

We played all year round and had tournament with local kids in the summer with a draft and hand drawn player cards.

We would ware out a pizza hut mini basketball at least once or twice a summer.

I'm from Indiana and grew up in the shadows of the Bob Knight era and Hoosier Hysteria.

If you got kids that could use the a place to dream or just want to hear the net swoosh; a basketball hoop nearby is better than waiting until things are perfect conditions. Use what you got. That tree will mean more to you than just shade on a summer day.

Have fun playing however you do it.

https://ibb.co/syVWq4r see my pic here.

The manual tells you to assemble the whole thing then mount it, near impossible cause it's so heavy. And the video they have doesn't even work. Can't open that link. I had to put two stubs in the back first cause I had stones on top but I literally disassembled the whole thing again and mounted each thing one by by on the stubs. Much more manageable. If you assemble the whole thing like it says you will need 4 bodybuilders

I wonder if HR would say anything if I put this up in my office.

I had an existing pole in my yard that's a bit bigger than a normal basketball hoop pole. I bought 3 u-bolts and 3 perforated square tubes to mount this to the pole. Bolt the square tubes to the pole with the u-bolts and then bolt the backboard to the tubes.

so i tried to replace a nasty old hazy stand up hoop in our driveway w/ this nice new one. I would have mounted on shed or garage... nothing but unappreciative rug rats joining the mommy bandwagon of daddy clicking too much on buying shit... i returned it locally... damn millennials. solid deal, solid product... as in heavy... but good.

Any idea how much it would cost to have professionally installed on a garage, and where I would go to get that done?

Bummer, I bought this for $275+ tax from Walmart in January 2022. Too late to return and rebuy.

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.

I had an existing pole in my yard that's a bit bigger than a normal basketball hoop pole. I bought 3 u-bolts and 3 perforated square tubes to mount this to the pole. Bolt the square tubes to the pole with the u-bolts and then bolt the backboard to the tubes.