Abstract: The true player interactive wear collection center pocket is a shirt like design invention to help people to Have a Hands free support storage interactive center pocket that is sewn and zipper open and close on to the center of the shirt. Different size pockets alone with the logo are sewn and attached using velcro on the inside of the Interactive wear collection center pocket to help store and carry items and other things. Like cellphone car key ID and other personal items. And will carry inflatable basketball games and other Inflatable items that are attached with velcro inside of the interactive wear collection center pocket. The logo Initially Yours Fashion Inc. True Player Interactive Wear Collection will be print and embroidered on shirts, pants, shorts. Shoes, jackets, hats, skirts and other marketing promotions items. The interactive center pocket was invented for hands free help and for storing items.

Abstract: A strap detachable portable basketball system includes a backboard. A rim assembly is on a front surface of the backboard. A mechanism on a rear surface of the backboard is for retaining the backboard in a height adjustable stabilizing manner onto an upstanding host structure. The mechanism includes two pair of ratcheting straps and an offset mounting shoe coated with durable rubber padded material for anti-slippage, anti-bouncing, and anti-shaking.

Abstract: A basketball hoop assembly and kit is described with the assembly comprising a flexible sheet which has the shape of a backboard, a hoop mount which is secured to the front face of the sheet, a hoop which is secured to the hoop mount and a net which is secured to the hoop. The basketball hoop assembly of this invention may be mounted on a wall surface by means of the adhesive backing on the sheet and may be removed therefrom without leaving marks on the wall or residue thereon.

Abstract: An improved basketball training device is presented. It has a bearing attached to a basketball goal, as well as either a facsimile hoop for attaching on the market chutes or a folding chute. This device allows balls to be returned to any area of the court.

Abstract: Insta-Net is a device designed to provide a quick and easy method of installing or replacing the netting on a basketball rim. Rather than the lengthy and arduous process of stringing, or unstringing a basketball net through the loops provided on a typical rim, the Insta-Net is a removable device with a net already attached to it, and installation simple involves dropping the device onto/inside the rim itself. Installation/removal can be done in a matter of seconds by simply snapping the device on or off the rim.

Abstract: An improved basketball training aid comprising a barrier over which a basketball shot must be lofted in order to pass through the basketball goal. The basketball training aid is intended for attachment to a basketball backboard and basketball goal. The basketball training aid comprises a shield formed into a substantially semi-circular shape or a substantially semi-elliptical shape with a gripping means affixed to each end of the shield. In use, each of the gripping means is attached to the front surface of the basketball backboard. The shield is held in place by the gripping means slightly above and substantially parallel to the basketball goal solely by the gripping means, with the upper surface of the shield is positioned above the top surface of the basketball goal and outside the front edge of the basketball goal. The basketball training aid is removed from the front surface of the basketball backboard by detaching each gripping means from the front surface of the basketball backboard.

Abstract: A ball return chute for a basketball hoop, and a modular basket assembly utilizing the novel chute. The chute engages the hoop by C-shaped members which slip over the rod stock of the hoop at the slot formed in each C. The chute can be rotated three hundred sixty degrees about the hoop, so as to return a ball passing downwardly through the hoop in any selected direction. The basket assembly includes a bracket for permanent attachment to a vertical environmental surface. The bracket has hooks or equivalent receptacles for receiving trunnion arms formed in a member projecting from the hoop. The hoop may thus be removably supported in an operable position by the bracket. The hoop and attached chute are removed from and installed on the bracket when desired.

Abstract: A basketball rim assembly includes an anchoring plate having a mounting assembly, a back plate, a support member, a rim and a locking mechanism. The anchoring plate is removably attached to the back plate by the mounting assembly, and the locking mechanism, comprising of a cam assembly, locks the back plate to the anchoring plate allowing for the safe and easy removal and placement of the rim.