Basketball pioneer dies at 95

Many think the pioneering spirit in Wyoming is often limited to the legendary mountain men and outlaws who lived and died more than a century ago. 

Wyoming lost one of its modern pioneers last weekend; the man who introduced the jump shot into basketball.

Kenny Sailors, 95, died at Spring Wind Assisted Living Center in Laramie Saturday morning. He had suffered from declining health since a heart attack that occurred in December of 2015.

Sailors is credited with developing the modern jump shot in basketball, a technique now considered one of the sport's fundamentals.

"It was a great innova...