Review on Step Up Your Game With SKLZ Pro Mini Basketball Hoop - Perfect For Home Practice! by Scott Kalinowski

I've owned 4 basketball hoops now, and this is my first one that works. Basically every hoop you know of is just a piece of plastic that breaks the first time you dunk on it, and can barely even handle normal shots. You spend all of your time looking for a legitimate basketball hoop that you can shoot, dunk on, and put a lot of abuse on over a long period of time. This is it. Congratulations SKLZ, the only company I have found to make a normal basketball hoop that 100% of people in the basketball hoop industry are looking for. I've had this hoop for a few weeks, and i constantly dunk on it and take super hard shots and it does not show any wear and tare. i never actually thought that in my lifetime I would live to see a mini basketball hoop that you can dunk on, but i have been proved wrong for the better. The fact that this thing is only $25 is also amazing. It's a hoop that seems to be made out of regulation material, which feels very nice, and the backboard, although bendy, seems to put up against a lot. it was easy enough to set up, as it came with the 3 nuts, the 3 screws, the padded rim plate, and the wrench to put it all in place. but don't worry, those nuts and screws are to connect the rim to the backboard, not to put it into the wall. it comes without the rim on the backboard because the box would have to be like 3 times as thick for it to be already set up, and the process really only takes 5 minutes at most. the hoop goes very nicely over the door, and the hooks are padded, but my personal experience is that i can't close the door with it on. my friend who introduced me to it has more room between his door and doorframe, so he can close his door with this on, so some doors may work to always have this on, although some like mine cannot. also, i thought that it would put stress on my door when i dunk on it or even leave it there, but it really doesn't. my advice though, is don't hang on it. ik it may be obvious to most people, but this thing isn't made out of diamond. if you weight 150 pounds and try to hang on it, it probably will break the backboard or the door, and it will be your fault! my only complaint would be the ball. it's not a big complaint, but the ball is pretty heavy. my friend who introduced me to this hoop told me that his neighbor under him complains about the ball hitting the ground, so when we play, we have to put a pillow under it to stop the ball from hitting the ground. my solution is really just ditch the ball. you can buy foam balls in 3 packs or something like that for $5 at your local dicks or modell's or sports authority or whatever your local sports store is. i understand that SKLZ is going for a regulation type ball, but i have a ball made out of the same material that's basically the same size but is probably half the weight. i stick with my two foam balls, and that same material half weight ball. a complaint that i saw from other customers was that the ball doesn't come inflated, but i know exactly why. once you inflate the ball, you'll notice it's 50% thicker than the box it came in, so that's why people. all in all, this is very worth it to buy, as for what it is, $25 is paying nothing for the experience. you can shoot and dunk and not really have to worry about a thing. when this thing breaks in like 10 years or whenever in the far future, i will definitely buy it again without even thinking twice about it.