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  1.                                  Angelo ΓÇ£Hank" Luisetti 
  2.                                  popularized the one-
  3.                                  handed push shot, using 
  4.                                  one hand at the side of 
  5.                                  the ball, to guide it, and 
  6. the other hand behind the ball to shoot it -- 
  7. the way players shoot today. Until the mid-
  8. 1930ΓÇÖs, there had been only one accepted
  9. way to shoot a basketball, and that was the
  10. two-handed push shot. 
  11.  
  12. As a child, Hank needed to wear leg braces. 
  13. He couldnΓÇÖt squat to take a ΓÇ£proper" shot, so 
  14. he started pushing the ball toward the 
  15. basket. He played with bigger kids, so he 
  16. had to move to the outside to get his shot off.
  17. Because he needed to build up momen-
  18. tum to get the ball to the basket, he 
  19. added running to the one-hander. 
  20.