Jump Shot: Kenny Sailors: Basketball Innovator and Alaskan Outfitter

*Excellent choice for sports and basketball buffs

*Popular historic sports hero thanks to recent features in Sports Illustrated and Denver Post

*Book released in time for NCAA March Madness

*Sailors was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame 2012

*Early in the 2008-9 basketball season, Wyoming designated Sailors’s No. 4 jersey as the

first to be retired and hung in the field house. His fans are advocating for Kenny to be

inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame

*U of WY will build 22-foot statue of Kenny taking his jump shot, to be unveiled in spring 2015.

*Sailors led Wyoming to its only national championship, in 1943, when he was named the NCAA tournament’s Most Outstanding Player as well as college basketball’s player of the year. For two years in the NBA he was the top scorer for the original Denver Nuggets in 1949-50 His innovative jump shot landed him in LIFE magazine in 1946.

*Indie Christian Film Festival piece on Kenny by Jacob Bryan Hamilton, Austin, TX:

http://www.atticfilmfest.org/portfolio-item/jumpshot/

*Sailors featured in Wyoming PBS Documentary in 2012