One morning I talked on the phone with Kenny Sailors, an early jump shot pioneer out of Wyoming, one of the last of the original shooters who was still alive when I worked on the book. At ninety-three, hard of hearing, having told his story hundreds of times, Kenny's enthusiasm for the jump shot, which he first took eighty years before our chat, was still obvious. When I finished talking with Sailors, his friend Bill Schrage, who helps him with interviews and operates a web site dedicated to Kenny's career, told me kenny sported a smile as he left for lunch at his assisted living facility in Laramie. The grin wasn't because of the meal. Memories of the jump shot still make Kenny smile. Millions know the feeling.

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