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Rise and Fire

The Origins, Science, and Evolution of the Jump Shot---and How It Transformed Basketball Forever

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The jump shot is the most important play in basketball and its inception revolutionized the game, spearheading an increase in scoring and bolstering the sport's popularity. Rise and Fire celebrates this crucial shot while tracing its history and shedding light on all corners of the basketball world, from the biggest NBA arenas to the playgrounds of New York City and the barns of Indiana.

Part history, part travelogue, and part memoir, award-winning journalist Shawn Fury praises the jump shot, puzzles over its complexities, and marvels over its simplicity. Impeccably researched and engaging, Fury bounces from the dirt courts of the first shooters of the 1930s to today's NBA courts and state-of-the-art shooting labs, examining everything from how nets and rims affect a shooter to rivalries between shooting coaches to how the three-pointer came to rule the game. The book traces how the jump shot changed basketball history, with interviews and profiles of legendary figures like Jerry West, Rick Mount, Bob McAdoo, Ray Allen, and dozens more, including the first woman ever drafted by the NBA. Fury visits Bobby Plump, the small-town kid who hit the jump shot that inspired the movie Hoosiers; talks with Kenny Sailors, the 93-year-old father of the modern jumper; and pays homage to Denise Long and Jeanette Olson who put on one of the greatest shooting displays ever one night in Iowa in 1968.

Analyzing the techniques and re-creating legendary plays from the greats-like Larry Bird, Pistol Pete, and Kobe Bryant-as well as lesser-known talents, Fury creates a technical, personal, historical, and even spiritual examination of the shot. This is not a dry how-to textbook of basketball mechanics-this is a lively tour of basketball history and a love letter to the sport and the shot that changed it forever.

Publishers Weekly Review

Oct 05, 2015 – Journalist Fury (Keeping the Faith) traces the growth of the jump shot and its various deployers, including Denise Long, the first woman drafted by the NBA, and Hall of Fame–center Bob McAdoo, one of the first big men to make the jump shot part of his offensive repertoire. In the mid-1950s, the jump shot was deemed an illicit (and unfair) action that diminished basketball’s ethos of teamwork. “What’s ruining basketball is the jump shot,” Jimmy Breslin proclaimed in 1956. Now it’s an established, integral part of basketball. Fury’s enthusiasm for the topic and his love of uncovering the obscure—the NBA experimenting with a 12-ft.-high rim in 1954, for example—give the book a fun jolt, but eventually become burdensome. Fury is so consumed with covering every source and piece of information with equal brio—Larry Bird, long-forgotten college gunners from the 1970s, rebellious jump-shooting instructors—that readers don’t know what to pay attention to. Those who resign themselves to Fury’s rudderless ways will savor the times when he connects.
Rise and Fire
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  • Available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
  • Category: Basketball
  • Expected Release: Feb 23, 2016
  • Publisher: Flatiron Books
  • Seller: Macmillan / Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
  • Print Length: 250 Pages
  • Language: English
  • Requirements: To view this book, you must have an iOS device with iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later.