The Forgotten Inventor of the Jump Shot
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Steph Curry is considered by some to be the best shooter in the history of basketball. Now, a new documentary film (on which Curry is credited as an executive producer) tells the story of Kenny Sailors, the man who invented the skill that Curry has since perfected -- the jump shot. Filmmaker Jacob Hamilton joins us to discuss the film, why Kenny Sailors has largely been forgotten by the basketball world, and why stars like Curry and Kevin Durant are now trying to get him into the basketball hall of fame.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to Jump Shot. |
| 0:09.3 | Tonight across the US and even around the world, thousands of gathered celebrate the incredible |
| 0:15.1 | story of Kenny Savers. |
| 0:18.3 | Steph Curry is considered by some to be the best shooter in the history of basketball. |
| 0:23.6 | And this week he's been paying tribute to the man who invented the skill that he has |
| 0:27.8 | perfected. |
| 0:29.0 | The Jump Shot. |
| 0:32.2 | Kenny Savers played basketball in the 1940s and 50s and he developed a way of shooting |
| 0:36.7 | that no one had seen back then. |
| 0:39.0 | But his story has largely been lost to history. |
| 0:42.1 | Today, filmmaker Jacob Hamilton, who has a new documentary about Savers, joins us to |
| 0:47.4 | discuss the man that basketball forgot and why stars like Steph Curry and Kevin Durant |
| 0:53.4 | are now trying to get him into the basketball hall of fame. |
| 0:56.8 | There just aren't many people that are able to speak up and be a voice for him because |
| 1:01.5 | so many of his peers have passed since then. |
| 1:08.1 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:12.0 | It's Friday, April 17th and this is The Lead. |
| 1:17.3 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:21.5 | There was just something about the emotion and the... |
| 1:25.3 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this stuff. |
| 1:28.3 | You can't pay. |
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