Instructions for the Portable Lifetime Basketball Goal

The Lifetime company produces basketball goals for use at home including a line of portable goals that utilize a wheeled base, which allows you to move the goal where it works best or inside to store during the winter months.

Things You'll Need

  • Phillips-head screwdriver
  • Adjustable wrench
  • Funnel
  • Cardboard
  • Rubber mallet
  • Sand (120 lbs.)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Pull the top pole up and out of the middle upper pole until the bottom of the top pole clears the holes at the bottom of the middle upper pole. Insert a provided 1/4- by 3/4-inch screw into the hole at the bottom of the middle upper pole and tighten with the screwdriver. Insert one of the provided 1/4- by 2 1/2-inch bolts into the hole at the top of the upper middle pole and through the top pole and tighten it down with the adjustment knob.

    • 2

      Place the bottom of the upper middle pole over the top of the lower middle pole so that the holes in the upper pole match up with the slit in the lower pole. Insert and a 1/4- by 3/4-inch screw through the hole. Repeat the same process with the bottom of the lower middle pole and the top of the bottom pole.

    • 3

      Pick up the entire pole system and tamp the bottom down on the cardboard until the bottoms of the middle poles cover the slits on the poles below them completely.

    • 4

      Insert the metal axles into the center of each wheel. Place the wheels under the base into each of the slots on the back of the base. Press down on the top of the bass until you hear a click indicating the wheels are locked in place.

    • 5

      Push the bottom of the right and left braces into the holes labeled right and left on the base. The top of the two braces will face each other. Tilt the base so you can see the bottom and slide the brace axles into the left and right holes.

    • 6

      Return the base to the upright position and insert the assembled pole into the hole at the front of the base and between the braces. Insert the provided hex bolt and nut and tighten down with the adjustable wrench. Tilt the base and insert the provided tap bolt into the hole under the pole and tighten it with the wrench.

    • 7

      Place the rim on the top bole facing the opposite direction of the adjustment knob and insert two 5/16- by 2 1/2-inch bolts and nuts and tighten with the wrench. Stand the assembly back up on its base and insert the funnel into the filling hole. While one person holds the pole, another will fill the base with the sand. Use the mallet to hammer the base plug into the hole.