How Much Force Does It Take To Break An Old-School NBA Backboard? 😳 | NBA on TNT 

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Loved it. 😂😂😂

And followed up with is your beard ever come up all the way in 😂😂

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@@user-vz8gt4xu2u shaq wouldn't understand even if you explained it to him

​@@user-vz8gt4xu2u Dawkins was grown man power than SHAQ who uses his weight for power.. Dawkins was 250-280 pounder at 6"10 While SHAQ was 7"1 300 pounder . Which makes DAWKINS much more powerfull than SHAQ

​@@mrboo3049Chocolate Thunder From The Planet Lovetron

@@mongoslade277 EXACTLY sir💯 Gotta love the "IN YOUR FACE DISGRACE" and "THE SPINE CHILLER SUPREME"♥️

@@mrboo3049 🤣🤣. He did NBA the 1980s on NBA TV before he passed. He started naming some of his dunks. Lisa Leslie & Michael Rappaport lost it

Or Charles

and repeat himself over and over again

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Not sure how they say Vince but not Dwight

​@TimDaGoof not sure how Kenyon Martin aint in this

kenny is so annoying. it gets so bad during all star wknd

Easssssyyyyyy now

@@trevmason2352 it’s a joke relax

YEARS of experience my man, that's how.

this

they didnt call him the human highlight film for no reason

True.

Yeah he got so high he could throw it down hard.

Shawn Kemp had some good dunks but Nique was tearing that rim up with crazy dunks. David Robinson had some power too. The Human Highlight reel and Robinson were my favorite dunkers.

Fox Sports Net had it for a while too.

Ray Lewis being a human battering ram

NBA on NBC

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Good Kenny is annoying like a gnat. 😂

Exactly...I taught the same thing.

And he didn't apply the amount of force that a fridge would falling lol like he barely held on and it gave way.

King James chase down block harder than Dominck

I swear I was gonna say the shot clock hit him in the head

Just watch ESPN Sport Science The Lab is just a cheap rebranding of the same show after it failed before.. and it will fail again.

The lab is just bad popular science. Use a force meter on a vertical tension strap or a hydraulic press instead of corny objects like a refrigerator. A lot of show, not great science.

​@@WanderingExistenceIt's just entertainment, not gonna excite basketball watching audience with real science

@@AK-74K Kinda sad tbh, but I sorta hear ya. Science can be presented in a better manner though, Carl Sagan and Bill Nye have left a cultural imprint on society with their science communication skills.

You forgot DARYL DAWKINS was the first power DUMKER. NIQUE too. Then SHAWN KEMP and SHAQ.. I'm not impressed on the way SHAQ breaks the rim. His 7"1 300 pounds of full WEIGHT power . It's possible for him to take down almost the entire rim. While DAWKINS was 6"10 260-280 pounds but intensely shattered the backboards with his awesome ferocity and power. A natural brute STRENGHT if you ask me. Which makes me in my opinion. DAWKINS was more stronger than SHAQ. As a IMMENSE GROWN MAN BRUTE STRENGHT

@mrboo3049 There have been a lot of players in high school, college, and professional level that have shattered backboards. But Shaq has taken down the entire structure that supports the backboard. Do you know anyone who has accomplished that feat?

@@jayelbee1111 Can you name those pro players that shatters backboards. Not in college level.. before SHAQ. DARYL was the first to have broken and shattered backboards in the pros.. I'm not even surprise that SHAQ 7"1 300 pounds can broke down backboards and took them down because of his WEIGHT combine STRENGHT which makes him a bit heavier But what surprises me is DARYL 6"10 260-280 pounds of NATURAL BRUTE GROWN MAN STRENGHT that can shattered a BACKBOARD that like you said first strike fear in the hearts of the players back in those days. Which is a bit surprise.. a POWER DUNKER that can broke backboards like DOMINIQUE and MJ was gifted by their STRENGHT and high leaping ability which is also great

@mrboo3049 You have to keep in mind that backboards in the NBA during the 1970s were not breakaway rims. Also, backboards in the NBA in that era were made from glass, not plexiglass. Shaquille O'Neal destroyed the backboard that had a breakaway rim and plexiglass, which is very hard to do. But the point I am getting across is that no other player in the NBA has destroyed the entire structure like the way O'Neal has. I mean, he has taken down the entire structure system to include steel frame support, cabling, shot clock, backboard, and rim. And he did it twice in the NBA to include Phoenix and New Jersey. I don't know any other player that has accomplished that. There were other players in the NBA that were bigger than Shaq, but they could not match the strength and power like him. Shaq was ferocious

@mrboo3049 The only players that destroyed the backboard in an NBA game other than Darryl Dawkins were Shaquille O'Neal, twice and Chris Morris, once. That's it

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the glazing is crazy. MJ wasn’t even known for super strength

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Definitely a compromised hoop

"12.5 is also a stretch since every center can out vert him" - Watch the ICONIC moment of Kobe and Shaq(alley oop dunk on Portland) With that weight, to be able to jump that high.... even Zion Williamson looks thin compared to Shaq.

​@@kamotetops1572Think your forgetting the man is 7'1". With only a 20 inch vertical he should be able to touch the top of the square

@@mongoslade277 "With only a 20 inch vertical he should be able to touch the top of the square" - Name another player as BIG as Lakers Shaq that can jump as HIGH as he can.

@@kamotetops1572 Point being that's he's 7'1" and doesn't have to jump high. He can probably tip toe and dunk

Gotta have hoop game knowledge to mention Stromile Swift. He was drafted too high but that wasn't his fault. 6'11" WITH a vertical. They don't know nothing about that

@@mongoslade277 facts my boy

100% he might’ve shattered some of those older ones

He's only like 6'3 200lbs tho. Super aggressive attacker of the basket tho of course

U meant west BRICK 😂😂😂😂

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You may wanna reconsider your list after watching some of Dominque Wilkins videos, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone throw it down with the combination of speed and power, there’s definitely a reason he got his nickname 😉

Well, yes and no. Obviously it was compromised, but it still took a hard dunk to break. Just probably more like 1,000 pounds of pressure since it was compromised rather than 6,000 to break one that isn’t. He’d probably bend the rim and break his fingers before he pulled hard enough on a rim to break healthy steel.