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Abstract

A basketball retrieval and return apparatus is used in combination with a pole-supported basketball backboard to collect shot basketballs that either ricochet off the backboard or fall through a rim attached to the backboard for returning the basketballs to the practicing player or players. The apparatus includes a bracket removably mountable to the lowest portion of the backboard, an elongated support bar pivotally mounted to the bracket, and a U-shaped ring bar attached to the support bar and which extends outwardly from and perpendicular to the backboard when the ring bar is pivoted from a non-use to a use position. In order to maintain the ring bar in its use position, a U-shaped support member is attached to the ring bar and pivots downward toward the level surface or ground so that a pole brace attached to the support member can have one end mounted to a pole bracket which is secured generally to the mid-point of the pole. When the U-shaped ring bar is disposed in its use position, a flexible, collapsibly-extensible netting attached to the ring bar encompasses the rim and net, collects the thrown basketballs, and directs the basketballs to a ball return structure located at the lowest part of the netting whereupon the basketballs can be retrieved by the players.

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