Patent ID: 7955082
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A portable basketball training device for creating visual distractions in the vicinity of a rim of an elevated transparent basketball backboard to facilitate increasing a player's concentration, focus, skill and accuracy in goal shooting, comprising: a portable basketball goal having an elevated transparent backboard having a back side and a rim on a front side; and an elongate generally rectangular housing having an opening in a bottom end, said housing sized to reside adjacent to a back side of the transparent basketball backboard at upper end thereof; mounting means on said housing for mounting said housing at the upper end of the transparent basketball backboard on the back side thereof; an electric motor and an elongate reciprocating bar contained in said housing, said motor and said bar operatively connected by reciprocating means for moving said bar in a reciprocating motion along a generally horizontal plane; a plurality of elongate movable vision distracters suspended at one end from said reciprocating bar in laterally spaced relation, each having an elongate body portion extending downwardly from said housing movably disposed on the back side of said transparent basketball backboard in the vicinity of the rim when said housing is mounted thereon; and said vision distracters swing from side to side responsive to reciprocating movement of said reciprocating bar to create a visual distraction to a player viewing the rim and backboard.