Basketball goal assembly

Abstract

A basketball goal for supporting a depending goal net having a plurality of cord loop portions comprising a goal ring having an upper surface and a lower surface, with the goal ring having a plurality of spaced apart slots extending peripherally around the ring and between the surfaces so as to receive a respective one of the cord loops therein. Each slot including a pair of side walls angularly displaced relative to each other outwardly from the lower surface towards the upper surface so as to provide an enlarged open end. A plurality of locking members dimensioned to simultaneously extend into each one of the grooves, with each locking member comprising a body element having oppositely disposed top and bottom ends and spaced apart edges intermediate the ends, and the edges being inclined relative to each other. The inclined edges of the body element being disposed in wedging relationship with the cord loop portions which are interposed between the inclined edges and the side walls so that upon the application of external forces to the goal net the locking members positively retain the goal net secured to the ring by means of the loops.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.