With only 3,480 total points and a career field goal percentage that looks more like a batting average, Kenny Sailors’ five-year NBA career was rather pedestrian. So why are the sport’s biggest names labeling his omission from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame a “travesty”? Because he invented the freakin’ jump shot.
“The got guy who invented the 24-second clock in the Hall of Fame” Doug Gottlieb can be heard saying in the video below. “But you can’t get the guy who invented the jump shot in the Hall of Fame?”
It’s a fair question.