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How the N.B.A. 3-Point Shot Went From Gimmick to Game Changer - by Victor Mather/ Pro Basketball/ Sports/ International New York Times/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com
"Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were rookies. Bill Walton’s move to the Clippers — the San Diego Clippers — was making headlines. Some N.B.A. finals games were still being broadcast on tape delay. And the league tried something new: a 3-point shot.
Its debut, in the 1979-80 season, was inauspicious. The New York Times’s season preview called the shot a “gimmick” in its headline and twice in the first two paragraphs. “It may change our game at the end of the quarters,” Phoenix Suns Coach John MacLeod told The Times. “But I’m not going to set up plays for guys to bomb from 23 feet. I think that’s very boring basketball.”
The Boston Celtics’ president, Red Auerbach, told The Times earlier that year: “We don’t need it. I say leave our game alone.” He theorized that the reason behind creating the shot was that “TV panicked over the bad ratings.”
Oddly enough, a Celtic, Chris Ford, is credited with making the first official N.B.A. 3, on opening night against the Houston Rockets. Each team wound up with one in the game.
The shot soon settled in as a rarely used weapon. At the end of that first season, teams had averaged less than three 3-point attempts per game.
Thirty-six years later, the 3-point shot has gone from a gimmick to a vital part of every team’s offense, and few would call it boring. This season, teams were averaging 8.3 3-pointers — on 23.7 attempts — each game entering Wednesday. Both of those figures would be records, breaking marks set last season..."
Stephen Curry, right, and Klay Thompson, left, are two of the best 3-point shooters on the Warriors, the N.B.A.’s best 3-point-shooting team. Credit Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
Richard
"Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were rookies. Bill Walton’s move to the Clippers — the San Diego Clippers — was making headlines. Some N.B.A. finals games were still being broadcast on tape delay. And the league tried something new: a 3-point shot.
Its debut, in the 1979-80 season, was inauspicious. The New York Times’s season preview called the shot a “gimmick” in its headline and twice in the first two paragraphs. “It may change our game at the end of the quarters,” Phoenix Suns Coach John MacLeod told The Times. “But I’m not going to set up plays for guys to bomb from 23 feet. I think that’s very boring basketball.”
The Boston Celtics’ president, Red Auerbach, told The Times earlier that year: “We don’t need it. I say leave our game alone.” He theorized that the reason behind creating the shot was that “TV panicked over the bad ratings.”
Oddly enough, a Celtic, Chris Ford, is credited with making the first official N.B.A. 3, on opening night against the Houston Rockets. Each team wound up with one in the game.
The shot soon settled in as a rarely used weapon. At the end of that first season, teams had averaged less than three 3-point attempts per game.
Thirty-six years later, the 3-point shot has gone from a gimmick to a vital part of every team’s offense, and few would call it boring. This season, teams were averaging 8.3 3-pointers — on 23.7 attempts — each game entering Wednesday. Both of those figures would be records, breaking marks set last season..."
Stephen Curry, right, and Klay Thompson, left, are two of the best 3-point shooters on the Warriors, the N.B.A.’s best 3-point-shooting team. Credit Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
Richard