Jump Shot: Kenny Sailors: Basketball Innovator and Alaskan by Lew Freedman
By Lew Freedman
Kenny used it in university basketball. He performed in Denver and a number of other towns whose staff names have now replaced, yet he additionally performed for the Boston Celtics with Bob Cousy. After he left the NBA, he moved to Alaska and in 1965 settled within the Glennallen zone, the place he used to be a fishing and searching consultant within the Wrangle Mountains for thirty‑five years. He now lives in Idaho, and his son lives and flies plane from Antioch, California.
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