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Piece Description
Anyone watching basketball games when the NBA season begins soon will see something that started with Kenny Sailors: the jump shot. That was in the first half of the 20th century. Recently, Sailors spoke about how he developed the shot in a moment of desperation.
Broadcast History
NPR's Morning Edition 10.24.08
Transcript
Kenny Sailors: I started out learning about the game of basketball on that old farm down in Hillsdale with my brother who was incidentally an outstanding ball player, probably the most outstanding one Hillsdale had had up until that time. He wanted me to play too, and of course I was just a punk kid and so he put a basket, a hoop, it didn't have any net on it. And ah, he worked out against me sometimes, even though he was five years older and of course, the good lord must have put it in my mind, if I'm going to get up over this big bum so I can shoot, I'm going to have to jump. It probably wasn't very pretty, but I got the shot off. And it went in. And ah, Bud says, "boy you better develop that, that's going to be a good shot". So I started working on it.
The NBA started up in 1946, and I signed up with Cleveland, and in that day, nobody jumps you see, everybody had to keep both feet o...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:" [STORYCORPS MUSIC]
The StoryCorps project this week brings us a story about BASKETBALL
history.
The N-B-A season begins soon ...
... and if you're watching those games ...
... you'll see something STARTED by Kenny Sailors.
Sailors is regarded as the the first to shoot a JUMP SHOT.
And when 87-year-old came to StoryCorps in Laramie, Wyoming with a
friend ...
... he explained how his famous shot got its start nearby.
[TAPE]
[STORYCORPS MUSIC]
OUTRO:Kenny Sailors with his friend Anne Brande at StoryCorps in Laramie,
Wyoming.
Their interview will be archived along with ALL the others at the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Subscribe to the podcast at NPR-dot-ORG.
[STORYCORPS FUNDER -- CPB + SFM]
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