"No single person invented the jump shot"

[Adv8RU12]

This statement appears in the review of the book "Rise and Fall: The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot", that appears in this Sunday's Denver Post. I haven't read the book, but would be interested to see how much credit Kenny Sailors gets in it.

http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_29682309/review-rise-and-fire-traces-evolution-jump-shot

 

[MedievalPoke]

Technically, that is true. However, as has been stated by people such as Bobby Knight and Jud Heathcote what Kenny Sailors did was different from others at the time - and HIS was the prototypical modern jump shot. So, while no single person invented the jump shot, Sailors' version of the jump shot was what became THE jump shot.

 

[stymeman]

regardless the fact, I'll still accept it as from what was said, NO one else was doing it, so that's where I'm going with it there