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- Breakaway_rim abstract "A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that can bend slightly downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then instantly snap back into a horizontal position when the player releases it. It allows players to dunk the ball without shattering the backboard, and it reduces the possibility of wrist injuries. Breakaway rims were invented in the mid-1970s and are now an essential element of high-level basketball.In the early days of basketball, dunking was considered "ungentlemanly", and was rarely used outside of practice or warm-up drills. A broken backboard or distorted rim could delay a game for hours. During the 1970s, however, players like Julius Erving and David Thompson of the American Basketball Association popularized the dunk with their athletic flights to the basket, increasing the demand for flexible rims.While several men claim to have created the breakaway rim, Arthur Ehrat is recognized as the inventor by the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation. A resident of Lowder, Illinois, Ehrat worked at a grain elevator for most of his life and barely knew anything about basketball. In 1975, his nephew, an assistant basketball coach at Saint Louis University, asked him to help design a rim that could support slam dunks. Using a spring from a John Deere cultivator, Ehrat designed a rim that could bend and spring back after 125 pounds of force were applied to it. He called his device "The Rebounder". In 1982, he was awarded a patent for his invention, which was officially called a "deformation-preventing swingable mount for basketball goals".The breakaway rim was first used by the NCAA during the 1978 Final Four in St. Louis. Although Darryl Dawkins notoriously shattered two backboards with his dunks in 1979, the old-style bolted rim structure was not phased out of the NBA until the 1981–82 season, when breakaway rims debuted as a uniform equipment upgrade.".
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- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink 1978_NCAA_Mens_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament.
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- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Basketball.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_inventions.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Category:Basketball_equipment.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Cultivator.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Darryl_Dawkins.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink David_Thompson_(basketball).
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- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Louis_University.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Slam_dunk.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink Smithsonian_Institution.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLink File:Dwigth_Howard_olympics2008.jpg.
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLinkText "Breakaway rim".
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLinkText "breakaway rim".
- Breakaway_rim wikiPageWikiLinkText "rim".
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- Breakaway_rim wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Breakaway_rim subject Category:American_inventions.
- Breakaway_rim subject Category:Basketball_equipment.
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- Breakaway_rim type AnatomicalStructure.
- Breakaway_rim comment "A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that can bend slightly downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then instantly snap back into a horizontal position when the player releases it. It allows players to dunk the ball without shattering the backboard, and it reduces the possibility of wrist injuries.".
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- Breakaway_rim depiction Dwigth_Howard_olympics2008.jpg.
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