The basket or hoop is a piece of

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equipment, consisting of the rim and net. It hangs from the backboard. The first basket was a peach basket installed by

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. The bottom was eventually cut out of the basket, and the basket was eventually replaced with the metal rim and net. Today there are

breakaway rim A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that contains a hinge and a spring at the point where it attaches to the backboard so that it can bend downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then quickly snaps back into a horizontal position when t ...

s. A field goal is a shot that goes through the basket.

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