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Practice at UA hooks Vanover

The sky hook has pretty much disappeared from basketball since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used it with devastating accuracy to score many of his NBA-record 38,387 points in a 20-year career from 1969-89.

"It's kind of a long-gone shot," Connor Vanover said. "But I'll try to bring it back."

Vanover, a 7-3 sophomore for the University of Arkansas, said developing a sky hook is among the things he worked on last season when he redshirted with the Razorbacks after transferring from California.

"I've been working on my post moves," said Vanover, who is from Little Rock. "The sky hook is one of those.