Patent ID: 7488264

Claim:
A basketball training device for use on a playing court for returning to a shooter said basketballs which have been shot into a basketball goal, said basketball goal including a rim, a rim support and a net descending from the rim said basketball training device comprising: a plurality of roller bearings sandwiched between an inner rigid bearing having an inner diameter and an outer diameter and an outer bearing having an inner diameter and an outer diameter; said inner rigid bearing attached to said basketball goal and said outer rigid bearing rotating freely with respect to said basketball goal; an attachment attached to said outer rigid bearing, said attachment selected from the group consisting of: (a) a rigid facsimile goal having an inner diameter, an outer diameter and a chute device attached to said rigid facsimile goal, wherein said basketball passes through said basketball goal; said inner bearing, said outer bearing and said chute device are returned to said playing court at an angle determined by a rotation of said outer rigid bearing; or (b) a chute having an interior through which the basketball is channeled away from said basketball goal at a preselected direction by a rotation of said outer rigid bearing and wherein said basketballs are returned to any area of said playing court.