WHO WAS THE FIRST NBA PLAYER TO SHATTER A BASKETBALL BACKBOARD?

November 5th is the anniversary of the first shattered basketball backboard by an NBA player, but you might be surprised to learn who did that. The first NBA backboard was shattered during the pregame warm-up in the Boston Garden in 1946 by, then Boston Celtic, Chuck Conners who also played baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs. But, Conners is best known, to those who even remember him, as the star of the television series “The Rifleman”, which aired from 1958 until 1963 and you can still see if your cable system has the Western Channel.

WHO WAS THE FIRST NBA PLAYER TO SHATTER A BASKETBALL BACKBOARD?

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