Video: Is this the most impressive trick shot ever attempted? Most of us find shooting a ball into a basketball hoop from the court hard enough, but imagine trying to do it from almost 500ft up in the air. That's exactly what one man attempted to do in Texas from the top of the Reunion Tower - a landmark that featured in the opening credits of the soap opera Dallas. He hurls the ball from the observation deck, 470 feet up, towards two friends who are holding the basketball net.