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Wednesday, October 06, 2004

A Can-Miss Event

Maybe you’ll jump at the chance to meet a living legend, but I think I’ll pass on the invitation. Courtesy the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.

CHEYENNE -- Kenny Sailors, credited with inventing the jump shot that revolutionized college basketball, will be the grand marshal of the University of Wyoming Homecoming Parade beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

In his book "The Origins of the Jump Shot," John Christgau wrote that Sailors is one of eight pioneers who in the 1930s and 40s developed the modern-day jump shot. A native of Hillsdale, Sailors is the only basketball player in Wyoming history to earn All-American status three times.

He was the unanimous selection for College Basketball Player of the Year in 1943 and was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1943 NCAA Tournament, when he led Wyoming to its only NCAA basketball championship.