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Originally Posted by Lord I'm pretty sure in the NBA you aren't given a technical if you break the backboard. Shaq has done it twice (the board even fell on Derrick Coleman once), and he wasn't given a technical. Shaq even admitted that he intentionally broke the board to show Coleman he was better than him, yet no T was given, so I think it's safe to assume that breaking the board or shattering the class does not earn you a technical in the NBA.

According to wikipedia, shattering the backboard IS a technical foul in the NBA.

Of course, most backboards are reinforced and have breakaway rims. Many of them are also hydraulic instead of permanently bolted to the ceiling or wall. I know Shaq broke at least one of these hydraulic goals when he slammed the ball so hard the hydraulic arm failed and the entire goal slowly lowered to the floor. However, he did not shatter the backboard itself, so that may have been how he avoided a technical being called.