Patent ID: 8523715

Claim:
A basketball goal system, comprising: a) a support b) a backboard assembly including a backboard panel and a basketball rim assembly mounted approximately the center width of said backboard panel; c) a parallelogram structure having a pair of upper arms each with a first end and a second end with said first ends pivotally connected to said support and a pair of lower arms each with a first end and a second end with said first ends pivotally connected to said support; d) wherein said parallelogram structure includes a pair of arm portions pivotally connected between second ends of said upper arms and said second ends of said lower arms; e) a brace assembly extending forward of said arm portions along a non-vertical axis to support said backboard assembly; f) said brace assembly defining a central brace portion connected between said arm portions and said backboard assembly adjacent the rear of said basketball rim assembly; and g) said brace assembly defining horizontally extending brace portions connected to opposing portions of said backboard assembly laterally offset from said basketball rim assembly; and h) a telescopic extension cylinder pivotally connected to said lower arms wherein said horizontally extending brace portions and said central brace arm are each connected to said backboard assembly in a fixed, non-pivoting angular relationships.