Spalding 74560 “The Beast®” Portable Basketball Hoop – 60″ Glass Backboard
- Residential portable basketball system adjusts from 7.5 feet to 10 feet
- Gray inset cover acts as a handle for pre-play movement and a rebounder during play
- Two-piece, 5-inch square angled pole system with screw in water level gauge base cap
- 60-inch glass backboard, Pro Image breakaway basketball rim, all-weather white net
- 50+-gallon capacity dual capacity base fills with water or sand for stability
The Spalding The Beast 74560 Portable Basketball Hoop with 60 Inch Glass Backboard features a Two piece, 5 Inch square angeled pole system with screw in water level gauge base cap, a 60 Inch tempered glass backboard, and the Pro Image breakaway basketball rim. The Spalding 74560 basketball system adjusts from 7.5 feet to 10 feet with an easy to use screw jack adjustment system and is easily portable using the multi-wheeled castors with engaging handle.Enjoy years of recreational basketball fun in your backyard with The Beast residential portable basketball system from Spalding (model 74560), which provides arena-quality play for your driveway. The four-strut pole/base mount allows for superior system rigidity. The multi-wheel design with castors and the engaging handle make this portable basketball system easier to move. And the gray inset cover acts as a handle for pre-play movement and a rebounder during play. The 50+-gallon base fills with water or sand for stability.
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Great hoop but check your parts when shipment arrives,
Great hoop system. The 60″ glass backboard feel like you are shooting at an indoor hoop on your drive way! My kids wouldn’t stop playing after we got it setup.
I was debating to hire someone to come out and assemble the system. So when I received the shipment, it sat in my garage for 5 days. Then after getting a ridicules quote to have someone come and assembly it, I decided to do it myself with.
So my 9 year old daughter and I ripped open the box Friday afternoon after work and started to assemble it. If you take few minutes to read the directions, the steps are very easy to understand and not very hard. We were done by night fall, about 3.5 hours. Probably faster if I had another adult to help.
When you get your shipment (it comes on a wood pallet in 3 big boxes) – kind of intimidating – open it up and check for any damages. We had one of the smaller water reservoir that had a crack in it so it won’t hold water (or sand). Thought about requesting for a replacement part but that would have meant that we had to wait another week or two. And I would have to reassembly the whole system to get water reservoir replaced. So I am using couple of sand bags to give it more weight.
One last suggestion, be sure to have the right tools. Make sure you have all the tools suggested in the setup guide. They aren’t anything special, just things like socket wrench, saw horse, etc. It will make your setup much faster and smoother!!
|Very Stable, rock solid rebounds, but cracked reservoir creates problems.,
I did a lot of research and came up with this one. I assembled it mostly by myself in one day, so it can be done. My wife and kids helped occasionally when needed. Recommend a sawhorse and then a stepladder to rest the unit on at various steps. Also, a key is to have deep sockets available, as well as socket wrench extenders (a really long one). Put some WD40 on the juncture between the two main poles–that will ease their joining. Once I did that, and straightened them out with a mallet, they slide together with just a few pounds onto the board as described in the manual.
If you have a cracked bottom reservoir like I do, you’ll need to try and squeeze a quarter ton of sand into the little sand access hole after fixing the hole. THAT’S irritating and time consuming, including the trip to Lowe’s to pick up all of the sand once I discovered the water leaking out. Make sure to check this before assembly, as once it’s all together, it’s very difficult to fix the crack (Mighty Putty? I’ve used duct tape and it’s worked to hold the sand in, anyway).
Not too happy with the moving of it–front wheels when engaged don’t give enough clearance for anything but a perfectly flat surface, and my driveway is not perfectly flat, so it hangs up repeatedly when moving it.
Now that I have it up, incredibly stable, very good design. A rebound off of the center of the hoop barely shakes it! Rebounds off of the sides shake a bit, but no more than most inground units do.
|The Beast Review,
It’s a great product to play on when it’s finally assembled but that wasn’t as easy as it should have been. Some of the parts that were suppossed to be pre assembled were not and they were not included in the box. I called Spalding and the customer service was friendly but not very helpful. They said that they would ship the parts but after a week I called back and they told me they didn’t ship anything because they were all out of the bolts I needed. They told me it would take a month to get the bolts from headquarters and another couple of weeks to mail it to me. I asked for the specs of the bolts and went to Lowes where I paid about $4 for all the materials. I’m glad I called back because it appeared they just dropped the issue when they realized they didn’t have the parts.
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