Hot dam(n)! World’s highest basketball shot travels nearly 600 feet

Hot dam(n)! World’s highest basketball shot travels nearly 600 feet

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Full-court basketball shots are made only once in a blue moon, so making one from more than twelve times that distance should be near impossible. And yet…

[fusion_title size=”4″]WORLD’S HIGHEST BASKETBALL SHOT[/fusion_title]

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The crew at How Ridiculous specializes in making the seemingly impossible, possible. With their minds set on recapturing the record for the world’s highest basketball shot, the trio secured permission to set up a basketball hoop at the bottom of Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland.

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On just his third attempt, Derek Herron tossed the ball from the top of the dam and when it rattled through the rim 593.73-feet (180.968m) away, he had himself a new world record.

How Ridiculous nails the world's highest basketball shot at 593.73 ft (180.97m)

If a shot from 23-feet-9 inches is worth three points in the NBA, should a 593-footer be worth 75 points?

[fusion_title size=”4″]NEXT STOP: DUBAI[/fusion_title]

How Ridiculous still have their eyes set on Dubai as a possible destination to break their own record. The Burj Al Arab helicopter pad (where Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played tennis) or Burj Khalifa at 2,717 feet tall (829.8m) have been identified as possible launch sites.

[fusion_title size=”4″]PREVIOUS WORLD RECORD[/fusion_title]

The previous world’s highest basketball shot belonged to Dude Perfect. In 2016, Tyler Toney nailed a 533-foot shot launched from the top of the Chase Tower in Oklahoma City.

[fusion_title size=”4″]NEW NORTH AMERICAN RECORD[/fusion_title]

Shortly after How Ridiculous set the new world record, Harlem Globetrotter Buckets Blakes went 58 stories up on the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas to set a new North American record at 583 feet 8 inches.

2017-10-16T07:46:37+00:00 October 16th, 2017|

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