Author: stepanh

The Lifetime 51550 is an advanced hoop for a fair price – it offers 48″ acrylic backboard, sturdy and durable parts and fantastic height adjustment system. Not a pro-grade system but more than adequate for home play.

The Lifetime 1269 is a decent quality portable hoop for children up to 15 years. Due to the higher quality acrylic backboard, it’s more expensive than the basic basketball hoops – but other components are the same.

Spalding NBA "The Beast" is the ultimate portable basketball system – quite expensive but well worth the money. Sturdy, solid and with top quality glass backboard, you feel almost like shooting at a college gym hoop.

The Lifetime 90040 is a basic portable basketball hoop designed for children from about 5 years of age and teenagers as well. It’s sturdy and durable, however some users were not satisfied with a few aspects of this hoop.

The Step2 Shootin' Hoops is a nice little plastic basketball hoop designed for kids between 2 and 7 years old. It’s very easy to put together and will provide many hours of fun for the entire family.

The Lifetime 1558 is a high quality portable hoop for a fair price – it offers sturdy and durable parts, awesome height adjustment system and very realistic rim + backboard action.

The Lifetime 1221 is a quality and inexpensive portable basketball hoop designed for children between 5 and 12 years old. It is not a professional system for more serious use – but for basketball learning or family play it’s perfect.