Abstract: A device for training basketball players to shoot while being in contact with or resisted by the arms of others includes a cage of tubular framework defining an opening through which a basketball player must enter the cage for shooting the ball from a shooting position within the cage. Pairs of arm-simulative members extend inwardly from opposite sides of the cage, each being of elongated arm-shaped character and affixed at a proximal end to the cage in forcibly yieldable relationship; such members are relatively positioned for being contacted by the player during movement to the shooting position.