Basketball training apparatus

A basketball training apparatus for use with a basketball rim placed above a playing surface, the basketball training apparatus comprising:

• a base on the playing surface beneath the basketball rim;
• a plurality of arms extending in different radial directions from the base;
• a plurality of shooting markers spaced apart along the length of each of the arms;
• a plurality of vision markers releasably attached to the basketball rim, each of the vision markers having a C-shaped cross-section so as to be releasably attached to the basketball rim, each of the vision markers being radially aligned with a corresponding one of the arms;
• wherein each of the vision markers is color-coded with at least one of the arm with which the vision marker is aligned and the shooting markers on the arm with which the vision marker is aligned;
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• wherein a user, when standing on one of the shooting markers of one of the arms and facing the basketball rim, is provided with visual shooting assistance as a result of the arm being radially aligned with one of the vision markers located on a region of the basketball rim that is nearest the user and the vision marker is the same color as at least one of the shooting marker on which the user is standing and the arm on which the shooting marker is located.