kenny sailors

Every NBA player owes a big thank you to Wyoming's Kenny Sailors. A new movie features many stars paying tribute to one of our own who invented the jump shot.

Memorial services for the late Kenny Sailors will be Friday, Feb. 5, at 10:00 a.m. in the Arena-Auditorium on the University of Wyoming campus.

Kenny Sailors was the Michael Jordan of Wyoming. Among the greatest athletes in the history of the Cowboy State, he was a pioneer for one of America's most popular sports. Early this morning, the inventor of the "jump shot" passed away in Laramie at the age of 95...

Basketball was invented in the late 1800's, but it took until the 1930's for the jump shot to make an appearance. The inventor of the jump shot just happened to be a 5'7" farm boy from Wyoming by the name of Kenny Sailors who started with the shot in high school and worked on it to perfection in college to take the Wyoming Cowboys to a National Championship...