I grew up in Lakewood during the time they removed every basketball court we had. Lakewood park, Madison park, the cages at Harding, YMCA wasn’t built yet. They tore down literally any half court tiny hoop as well they could find. It greatly affected all of us who played and in fact we biked and bussed to way worse parts of other neighboring cities just to be able to play again. Half the time the hoop wasn’t even the right size. Still a little salty about all this to this day. Removing hoops is not the way to go.