A detail of a basket hoop, net and backboard. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)An Alabama high school basketball game was postponed Friday night after some chaos involving the hoop.Ramsay High School’s Keshawn Murphy saw an opportunity to soar over the Carver-Birmingham High School defense and did.
Murphy went up for the alley-oop and threw down a dunk so thunderous it brought the entire basket and everything connected to it down.After Murphy finished the dunk, video showed the backboard and the lever connected to it go down.
Somehow, all the players on the court managed to get out of the way of the collapsed basket and there didn’t appear to be any injuries to any of the players.The backboard made a loud noise as it hit the court."When I dunked, I.