Recreational basketball apparatus with moving goal

Claim 1

A commercial basketball recreational facility comprising: (a) an array of basketball courts grouped in spaced-apart sets on a common land area, each set of courts having a plural number of courts and each court having a goal-backboard support means and appropriate fencing shared with adjacent courts on either side thereof; and (b) a set of elevated unique goal-backboard structures for the array of courts with one such unique structure being supported in each court on each said support means at an elevation appropriate to the game of basketball and including among the set of said unique goal-backboard structures at least one such unique goal-backboard structure having a vertical backboard with a conventional basketball goal mounted on a shaft member rotatable with respect to the backboard about a horizontal axis perpendicular to the plane of the backboard and means to rotate said shaft so as to present said goal in a periodically recurring normal horizontal basketball goal position for passage of the ball therethrough.