Jump Shot: Kenny Sailors: Basketball Innovator and Alaskan Outfitter

ISBN-13: 9780882409931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 218 str.

Lew Freedman

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Kenny Sailors was a basketball star, and the inventor of the jump shot. He attended the University of Wyoming and was MVP in 1943 in college AA basketball. After WWII, he spent five years as an early player in the new NBA. As a youngster, Kenny was five-foot-seven but his older brother was six-foot-two so when playing basketball, Kenny had to jump up over his brother to get off a shot. That is how the jump shot was born, and Kenny used it in college and professional basketball. He played in Denver and several other cities whose team names have now changed, but he also played for the Boston Celtics with Bob Cousy. After he left the NBA, he moved to Alaska and in 1965 settled in the Glennallen area, where he was a fishing and hunting guide in the Wrangle Mountains for thirty-five years. He now lives in Idaho, and his son lives and flies aircraft from Antioch, California.
Excellent choice for sports/basketball buffs
Popular historic sports hero thanks to recent features in "Sports Illustrated" and "Denver Post."
Inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame 2012
Early in the 2008-9 basketball season, Wyoming designated Sailors's No. 4 jersey as the first to be retired and hung in the field house. His fans are advocating for Kenny to be inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame.https: //www.facebook.com/pages/Get-Kenny-Sailors-into-the-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame/107319762637644
Sailors led Wyoming to its only national championship, in 1943, when he was named the NCAA tournament's Most Outstanding Player as well as college basketball's player of the year.
For two years in the NBA he was the top scorer for the original Denver Nuggets in 1949--50
His innovative jump shot landed him in "LIFE" magazine in 1946.
Indie Christian Film Festival piece on Kenny by Jacob Bryan Hamilton, Austin, TX: http: //www.atticfilmfest.org/portfolio-item/jumpshot/
Featured in Wyoming PBS Documentary in 2012
Released in time for NCAA March Madness
Excerpt from "Sports Illustrated" 3/06/13: Sailors was also a revolutionary who changed the game by developing and ultimately popularizing the modern-day jump shot. . . . "Once I started using the jumper], I realized I could get this shot off over anybody," says Sailors, who was five-foot-ten in college. "It paid off every time I ran into a six-foot-five player who could give me trouble."