How Good at Basketball Is Kate Winslet, Really? A Slate Investigation.

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When she says “you jump, I jump,” how’s her vertical?

—not bad! Maybe Kate Winslet’s not a blue chip recruit, but she’s definitely someone you want on your team.Sportswriter Mike Jensen, for his part, thinks Winslet’s a baller. Jensen, who’s been reporting on local hoops for the Philadelphia Inquirer for three decades, started his career covering high school basketball in Delaware County. “Obviously she’s a winner,” Jensen said of Winslet. “You want her on your team. But you’re trying not to draft her first.

”“I wasn’t at the championship game,” Jensen said, “but I caught Easttown on their run to the final. I saw Mare in action, and she was memorable.” Mare Sheehan played with a chip on her shoulder, he said—the girl who scored 15 points in a game, then bought a 50-cent salt pretzel at the concession stand and ate that for dinner. “Mare was that kid who played against the kids who played in AAU in the summer, and she beat them—even though she couldn’t play AAU, because she worked a summer job.

 

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