Hip hoop hooray! Basketball fans catapult themselves into the record books with incredible medieval-style long shot

The Legendary Shots are a group of basketball fans who go to great lengths to get the ball in the net - literally.The Alabama friends recently scored a basket from around 150 feet - potentially a new world record - but it was actually the method of the shot that pleased them more than the distance.
The nine-strong gang built a wooden catapult which they used to fire the ball across a street and through the rim.
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