Abstract: A basketball practice device to allow a player to practice handling a basketball in rebounding and tipping, the device including a boom pivoted above a backboard, an extendible section depending from the boom in the vicinity of the goal on the backboard, and a cap for releasably holding a basketball carried at the lower end of the extendible section, the attachment by which the basketball is held to the cap being variable to vary the ease with which the ball is removed from the cap.