Basketball Hoop Buying I Acrylic vs Tempered Glass I

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Acrylic or tempered-glass backboard? 

Unless you're looking to avoid vandalism, I recommend tempered glass.  It's just a better quality of play.  If it wasn't, the NBA, NCAA and high schools wouldn't use glass. The only time I recommend acrylic is if you're mounting a backboard to a wall and you're concerned with the weight of a glass backboard.

Other factors:

1. Acrylic gets a chalky look over time.  Glass does not.
2. There's a negligible difference in price so you're not saving money by going acrylic.
3. I've installed hundreds of glass backboards in public places and have never had a problem with vandalism.  You have to throw a direct shot at the board.  The only time this happens is inside gyms with stray baseballs and lacrosse balls.  (There's a fine line between vandalism and boys that play lacrosse/baseball that act like knuckleheads.  Boys will be boys.)