Steph Curry just hit 400 threes in a season. And it took him eight years as the pioneer of the three-point shot, breaking new NBA boundaries, with each three, to set the bar that high. When Larry Bird hit his 400th career three in the 1987-1988 season, he was stepping into uncharted waters: he was the first player ever to make 400 threes. Steph Curry hit an NBA legend's career's worth of threes But this shows that's not the case: Nobody has ever led the NBA in three-pointers while shooting as high a percentage as Curry shot this year. Except here, we can also see the percentage they shot on those threes.Ī lot of people have implied that NBA legend X could've made 402 threes if only they were allowed to shoot 883 three-pointers like Curry did. The dots in this graph represent the person who led the NBA in three-pointers made each season since the NBA introduced the three-pointer. Steph is the most accurate volume shooter of all time Here's a look at how the league average has increased in comparison to Steph's 5.1 threes per game mark.įrom here on out, even the worst teams will surpass five made threes per game and 400 made threes in a season. This season, Curry made more three-pointers the average NBA team for the first 25 years that the three-point shot existed. Nobody hit 300 until the 1988-89 Knicks, and nobody hit 400 until the 1993-94 Houston Rockets, who used Vernon Maxwell, Kenny Smith and a young Robert Horry to provide spacing for Hakeem Olajuwon en route to a championship. Nobody would hit that total for seven seasons. But even that 177 was a result of an early infatuation with the three that quickly disappeared. So, to summarize: Steph Curry just made more threes than any team for the first 15 years after the three-pointer was introduced.Ī lot of people have pointed out that Curry made more threes than the first league leader in the category, the 1979-1980 San Diego Clippers, who made just 177. (Finding all the historically accurate logos was a pain, but worth it, I think.) Here's a look at the team that hit the most threes in the NBA every year from 1980, when the three-pointer was introduced, until 1994, when a team finally hit as many as Curry hit this year: For almost the entirety of the NBA's history, even the best shooting teams failed to hit as many threes as Curry hit this year. Over the past 10 years, Steph Curry would've outshot the worst team in the league almost every season:Īnd almost all these teams - save the 2007 Sixers - attempted more threes than Steph.īut even these totals reflect a massive shift in NBA philosophy towards the three-pointer. However, this is not true of most seasons. The Milwaukee Bucks hit the fewest threes of any NBA team with just 440, almost 40 more than Curry. Steph Curry did not outshoot any NBA teams this season. Steph Curry just hit more threes than most teams in NBA history A lot of words have been written about Curry and these Warriors and just how amazing they've been, but I'd also like to take some time to show the preposterousness of the sheer number of threes Curry hit this year. I can't recall a major record in any sport being demolished so thoroughly as Curry demolished the NBA's three-point record this season. You can only do this by being incredible every single game. You cannot do this by being hot once or twice. That's a difference of 1.53 per game over the course of an 82-game season. It's Curry, then 100 threes later, Curry again and then Curry again.Ĭurry hit 126 more shots than anybody else has ever hit - that anybody else being his own teammate, Klay Thompson, who hit 276 this year in Curry's shadow. The leaderboard for most threes in a season is now a joke. He made 402 threes when nobody besides him had ever broken 270. Meanwhile, Stephen Curry broke his own record for three pointers in a season by A HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN. However, they only broke that total by one win. Any time anybody breaks a record previously held by Michael Jordan, it deserves to be talked about, and we should talk about it. It's extremely impressive that the Golden State Warriors just broke the record for most wins in an NBA season, and we should talk about it.
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