Shattered: How to break a backboard

 
BY DAVID UBBEN | Modified: January 7, 2010 at 9:47 am | Published: January 7, 2010   

NORMAN — It’s an exclusive club. And when its members join, they do it with a highlight that basketball fans can’t wait to see.

Only the most powerful dunkers can turn the backboard into a shower of broken glass. They become immortalized, too.

photo - The shattered backboard fraternity is a small one, and the manufacturers are trying to prevent the fraternity’s "board-busters” population from growing. AP photo
The shattered backboard fraternity is a small one, and the manufacturers are trying to prevent the fraternity’s "board-busters” population from growing. AP photo

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