What is being measured?
Regulation inside diameter of the NBA basket ring. This excludes the ring metal’s thickness.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- inside ring diameter
- Reference value
- 18 in
- Evidence
- Nominal standard size
- In metres
- 0.4572 m
Put the length in perspective
One NBA basketball hoop represents approximately 5.34 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
NBA basketball hoop · 0.4572 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m