Basketball backboard support assembly

Claim 1

A basketball goal assembly having provision for the easy transportation and assembly thereof, and the ready adjustment in the height of the goal, said assembly comprising an upright, rigid rectangular pole comprising three relatively short aligned tubular pole components each of substantially the same rectangular cross sectional dimension, a pair of opposing L-shaped angle brackets matingly overlapping and substantially encompassing abutting end portions of adjacent pairs of pole components, a plurality of fasteners extending through each pair of angle brackets and the pole components encompassed thereby, said fasteners including pairs of bolt means spaced axially one from another along the end portion of the pole component penetrated thereby and directed along perpendicular axes for clamping opposing portions of said angle brackets against said pole component end portion and thereby for rigidly aligning and securing together said pole components, a pair of vertically spaced apart backboard brackets carried by the uppermost one of said pole components, each of said brackets including means for releasably and clampingly engaging said uppermost pole component to secure the bracket thereto while readily permitting the vertical adjustment thereof, and laterally directed portions extending outwardly a predetermined distance from opposite sides of said pole, each of said laterally directed portions including coplanar flat end portions and defining apertures extending through said flat end portions, a backboard positioned flush against Said flat end portions of said laterally directed portions, bolt means extending through said backboard and said aperture means for securing said backboard to each of said brackets, and a basketball goal mounted on said backboard.