jump shot

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.

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...