Preface.
For a long time, there was no such thing as a three-point point in the NBA, and players would have frequent physical confrontations during the game, which could provide fans with an excellent viewing experience, full of passion, and after the introduction of the three-point line, the game also had a new and unique look.
Watching Bird, Mullin and other stars hit three-pointers, smile slightly, and take away the game, this is also a kind of enjoyment, after the NBA had a three-point line in 1979, the league emerged a large number of high-quality three-point players, who can shoot 40% or even higher three-point shooting performance in the season.
But there aren't many who can maintain an efficient three-point shooting performance for a long time, and stars like Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, and Curry can achieve it, so how many seasons in their careers have they shot 40%+ three-point shooting in the regular season (full season)?Let's find out!Curry missed out on the No. 1 spot.
Ray Allen. 8 seasons with a 40%+ three-point shooting rate
Highest three-point shooting percentage: 2011-12 (45.)3%）
Ray Allen, one of the members of the "96** generation", was directly put in the starting position after being selected by the Bucks to start his NBA career, and became the focus of the team's training.
In terms of three-point shooting, Ray Allen showed good strength in his rookie season, shooting 39With a 3% three-point shooting rate, after gradually adapting to the rhythm of the NBA game, Ray Allen began to improve rapidly, averaging 22 per game in the fourth season of his career1 point, he ushered in his first season with a three-point shooting percentage of 40%, when Ray Allen's three-point shooting percentage reached 423%, Ray Allen was also selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career.
And in the 2000-01 season, Ray Allen shot 40%+ three-point shooting for the second consecutive season, averaged 22 points per game, was selected to the best team, and helped the Bucks reach the Eastern Conference finals, at that time, the "trio" of Ray Allen and Cassel and Glenn Robinson became one of the most gorgeous offenses in the league, and in the 2001-02 season, Ray Allen shot 40%+ from three-point range for the third consecutive season, and the Bucks blasted out the league's 8th average points per game, 106The offensive efficiency of 9 is also 8th.
Traveling to the SuperSonics in 2002-03, Ray Allen climbed to higher heights, and he had an argument with Kobe Bryant about whether he could be the team's big man. When Ray Allen first joined, the SuperSonics were in turmoil and the team was dismal, but Ray Allen used his own way to lead his teammates and create better chemistry and cohesion for the team, and they became one of the top offensive teams in the league, with an offensive efficiency of 112 in 2004-052. Ranked second in the league.
In the 2005-06 season, Ray Allen shot 40%+ three-point shooting in the regular season for the fourth time in his career, and he shot 41 from three-point range2% and can shoot 3 per game4 three-pointers, high production and efficiency, but unfortunately, the supersonic lineup combination led to a lack of ceiling, and they finally chose to start over, trading Ray Allen in 2007.
Ray Allen went to the Celtics in the 2007-08 season, he formed the "Big Three" with Garnett and Pierce, and helped the Celtics win the championship that season, and in the 5 years he played for the Celtics, Ray Allen had 3 seasons with a 40%+ three-point shooting rate, and he was often one of the team's most consistent scoring points, because of Ray Allen's accurate three-point shooting performance, the Celtics were able to arrange more tactics and remain among the top teams in the league.
At the age of 37, Ray Allen shot 40%+ three-point shooting for the eighth time in his career, and also helped the Heat win the championship in the 2012-13 season, and his game-tying three-pointer in the final minute of G6 regular time in the Finals can be called one of the NBA's most classic three-point moments.
Reggie Miller
40%+ three-point shooting in 10 seasons
Highest three-point shooting percentage: 1997-98 (42.).9%）
The Pacers were once known as the "Reggie Miller Team", which is enough to explain the importance of Reggie Miller as an iconic star to the Pacers.
Reggie Miller spent all of his 18-year NBA career with the Pacers, his flamboyant personality, and his three-point shooting was a favorite among Pacers fans of the era, and in the 1988-89 season, the second season of his career, Reggie Miller shot a whopping 40A 2 percent three-point shooting percentage, achieved for the second straight season in 1989-90.
Reggie Miller's level of running off the ball can be said to be historic, although his body is not too strong, and he even looks thinner among players in the same position, and he is often knocked to the ground in games, but Reggie Miller always seems to have a way to put the ball in the basket, just ask Knicks fans, before Trae Young, Reggie Miller was the "public enemy of the Knicks".
8.The scene of 9.08 seconds leading the team to a comeback in the playoffs is still fresh in my memory, and it is also one of the representative moments of Reggie Miller's career, and of course, the three-point shot after breaking away from Jordan's defense is also one of the most frequently mentioned NBA shootout scenes.
In the seven years from 1993-94 to 1999-00, Reggie Miller helped the Pacers reach the Eastern Conference finals four times and reach the Finals once, and in the seven seasons from 1993-94 to 1999-00, Reggie Miller shot 40%+ three-point shooting in six seasons.
In the 2001-02 season, Reggie Miller shot 40%+ three-point shooting for the ninth time in his career, and in the 2003-04 season, the 38-year-old Reggie Miller shot 40 for the 10th time in the regular seasonWith a 1% three-point shooting rate, the Pacers at that time already had a strong lineup.
Young O'Neal Jr. and Artai teamed up with Reggie Miller to lead the Pacers to play a strong competitive game, with a luxurious record of 61-21 in the regular season and became the championship favorite, but because of the clash in the series with the Pistons in the playoffs, many of the Pacers' main players were suspended, and finally failed to win the championship.
Curry
12 seasons with a 40%+ three-point shooting rate
Highest three-point shooting percentage: 2011-12 (45.)5%）
The two "seniors" above have occupied the first position in the history of the total number of three-point points in the NBA career, Ray Allen surpassed Reggie Miller in the 15th year of his career, and the total number of three-point shots at the end of his career was fixed at 2973, and Curry broke the record set by Ray Allen in the 13th season of his career and became the new all-time three-point king.
Curry's father, Dale Curry, is a former NBA player, Curry has been able to play next to the NBA game since he was a child, and his father is a guard with a good three-point shooting level, and Curry's three-point ability can be said to be better than the blue.
Having made a name for himself with three-pointers in college, Curry couldn't see the feeling of being too far away from the NBA's three-point line after entering the league and not adapting to it, and he shot 43He shoots 7% from three-point range and averages 2 percent from the field1 three-pointer, in terms of three-point alone, Curry was already very good when he first entered the league, and in the following 9 years, Curry's three-point shooting rate was 40%+ every season.
In the 2015-16 season, Curry finished with 45He shot 4 percent from the field and averaged 5 per game in the regular season1 three-pointer, a total of 402 three-pointers, the NBA player has the most three-point shots in a single season in history, and it is the first existence to break through 400.
By the 2022-23 season, Curry had 12 full seasons shooting 40%+ three-point shooting, the second-most in NBA history, tied with Korver and behind Nash, who had 14 seasons with 40%+ three-point shooting. By the 2023-24 season, Curry has made more than 3,500 career regular-season three-point shots, the first player in the NBA to do so, and he's shooting 427% of cases to achieve this achievement.
Do you think Curry will be able to reach the first all-time number of seasons with a 40%+ three-point shooting percentage before retiring?