The World's Farthest Basketball Shot

An hour and a half into their attempt to hit the longest trick shot they've ever tried, members of the Alabama-based Legendary Shots wondered if they might have dreamed up an idea too difficult to pull off.

Time after time, they shuttled basketballs by elevator to 17-year-old Evan Sellers on a 134-foot-high platform near the top of Birmingham's famed Vulcan monument. And time after time, the Pinson Valley High School quarterback launched shots that clanged off the rim or narrowly missed the basket set up on the ground below.

An hour and a half into their attempt to hit the longest trick shot they've ever tried, members of the Alabama-based Legendary Shots wondered if they might have dreamed up an idea too difficult to pull off.

Time after time, they shuttled basketballs by elevator to 17-year-old Evan Sellers on a 134-foot-high platform near the top of Birmingham's famed Vulcan monument. And time after time, the Pinson Valley High School quarterback launched shots that clanged off the rim or narrowly missed the basket set up on the ground below.

Finally, 10 minutes before the two-hour time limit the monument staff gave them expired on Sunday afternoon, Sellers cocked his right arm, lobbed another shot and watched in disbelief as the ball found all net. It was a jubilant moment for the group of Alabama teens who have become YouTube sensations since they began attempting trick shots in the driveway of Carson Stalnaker's home two years ago.

"It was pretty exciting," Stalnaker, the group's 17-year-old founder, said by phone. "I asked Evan afterward, 'Did you think you were going to make it,' and he said, 'I really didn't.' If we hadn't made it, it would have been a really disappointing day."

via yahoo