Back in grade/middle school we used to play bball on an 8 foot rim. We called it "Dunk Hoop" because we called no fouls and you could goal tend; basically you had to dunk or be very strategic to score from the outside. We had no 3 in the key either but pretty much kept all the other normal rules. At 6' tall, I could stand on my tip toes and just barely scrape the bottom part of rim. That was the most fun I ever had playing basketball as it was a combination of bball and football but when we got into more organized play, we had to dramatically change our game or we would have fouled out in the first quarter. But it taught us not to be wimps.

Anyway, I bring this up because although hard to tell from the angle, I think the rim is taller than 8 feet but certainly not taller than 9 feet, not that it matters a whole lot.