PHOTO: 330-pound Sim Bhullar shatters backboard

Standard backboards are made with a half-inch of tempered glass to bear heavy loads. Breaking the glass is both dangerous and expensive.

That wasn't enough to withstand - or deter - a literally shattering slam by Sim Bhullar.

The 7-foot-5, 330-pound center managed to shatter a backboard while practicing with Team Canada at the Pan Am Games. Fortunately, the glass remained in the frame, so Bhullar wasn't showered with sharp shards.

Bhullar played three games with the Sacramento Kings last season. He scored two points and blocked one shot in three total minutes of play.

In breaking a backboard, Bhullar joins a proud lineage of rim rattlers that features Shaquille O'Neal and Darryl Dawkins, among others.