Patent ID: 8702540

Claim:
Apparatus for practicing shooting a basketball, comprising: a basketball; and an intra-digital device to hold fingers of a user in contact with the basketball so as to enable the user to practice shooting the basketball, said device including: a first linking member; a second linking member, said first and second linking members having respective first ends that are joined to one another at a joint located between said first ends so that an angle greater than zero is established between said first and second linking members; an index finger receptacle located at the opposite end of said first linking member and being sized to receive the index finger of the user; a ring finger receptacle located at the opposite end of said second linking member and being sized to receive the ring finger of the user; and a middle finger receptacle connected to the joint at which the first ends of said first and second linking members are joined to one another and being sized to receive the middle finger of the user, said middle finger receptacle lying closer to said joint than to either one of said index and ring finger receptacles, said index, ring and middle finger receptacles positioned relative to one another so that said middle finger receptacle lies within a triangular space surrounded by the first and second linking members and an imaginary line extending between said index finger and ring finger receptacles, whereby the index, ring and middle fingers of the user when received through said index, ring and middle finger receptacles are held in contact with said basketball while practicing.