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Stephen Curry attempting a jump shot over Marcin Gortat. In basketball (and derivatives like netball), a player may attempt to score a basket by leaping straight into the air, the elbow of the shooting hand cocked, ball in hand above the head, and launching the ball in a high arc towards the basket for a jump shot (colloquially, a jumper).
He is recognized by some basketball scholars as an early innovators of the jump shot, being perhaps the first college basketball player to use the technique as his primary offensive weapon. [ 2 ] According to journalist Bill Pennington, writing in The New York Times in 2011, the origins of the "jumper" are a matter of significant scholarly dispute:
This was the first official NBA simulation video game to introduce customized fictional teams. It is also notable for being the first NBA video game to not feature Charles Barkley, as he began refraining from signing licensing agreements due to the lack of pay to retired players from the NBAPA. [2] [3] NBA Live 95 was followed by NBA Live 96.
Kenneth Lloyd Sailors (January 14, 1921 – January 30, 2016) was an American professional basketball player active in the 1940s and early 1950s. [1] A 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) guard, he is regarded one of the players who developed the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed set shot.
NBA 2K7 is a basketball simulation game based on the National Basketball Association. Particularly similar to NBA 2K6, NBA 2K7 simulates the experience of the sport of basketball, and more specifically, the experience of the NBA. Players play NBA games with any real life or custom team, in many different game modes, such as quick play or ...
Angelo-Giuseppi "Hank" Luisetti (June 16, 1916 – December 17, 2002) [1] was an American college basketball player. He is considered to be one of the great innovators of the sport. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed set shot, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot, an early version of the jump shot.
ESPN NBA Basketball (alternatively known as NBA 2K4, and sometimes mislabeled as ESPN NBA Basketball 2K4 [1]) is a 2003 basketball simulation video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega. It is the fifth installment in the NBA 2K franchise and the successor to NBA 2K3. It was released in 2003 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Jump shot, in cue sports such as pool (pocket billiards), a shot in which the cue ball is intentionally jumped into the air to clear an obstacle (usually an object ball) Jump shot (basketball) , an attempt to score in basketball by jumping, usually straight up, and in mid-jump, propelling the ball in an arc into the basket, unlike a normal shot ...