How to vertical jump Vertical jump is surely one of the most needed skills of a basketball player, and when you see one of those gravity-defying moves you understand why: it’s almost impossible to block such a shot and, not less important, it’s really awesome and spectacular. The most common reaction [...]
Too many people seem to believe that your vertical jumping ability is something you are born with; it’s as if you have a God given ceiling that you’ll never get past. You watch basketball players and Olympic athletes jump to amazing heights and assume that they just got the right numbers in the genetic lottery. [...]
Bernard King was chosen in the second round of the 1977 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets and averaged 24.2 points per game to make the All-Rookie Team. A 6-foot-7 205-pound forward King was traded to the Utah Jazz in 1979 but missed most of the season with a severe knee injury and was [...]
