Category: All-Star

NBA changes Three-Point Contest for first time, adding two deep threes

The NBA is changing the Three-Point Contest, as contestants will now attempt two additional shots from six feet behind the three-point line.

The NBA recently announced changes to the All-Star Game, but that’s not the only tweak to All-Star Weekend: The league has also decided to make an addition to the Three-Point Contest, as contestants will now attempt two additional shots from six feet behind the three-point line.

There will be two green, MTN-DEW-branded basketballs placed 29’9” from the rim in what will be called the “MTN DEW Zone” and both of these deep three will be worth three points – making them even more important than the contest’s money balls.

Because there are two additional shots that that players must attempt, there will be 10 seconds added to each round (so each of the rounds will be one minute and 10 seconds going forward).

That means a perfect score in the Three-Point Contest will now be 46 points as opposed to the previous high of 40 points. This is the first change to the NBA’s Three-Point Contest since its inception in 1986. This is the second year in a row that MTN DEW has sponsored the Three-Point Contest.

Last year, Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Harris won the Three-Point Contest. Reports have indicated that Harris will return to compete against Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine, Charlotte Hornets guard Devonte’ Graham and Miami Heat wing Duncan Robinson among others in this year’s event.

The Three-Point Contest is part of All-Star Saturday, which is on Feb. 15, 2020.

All-Star: The players with the most fan votes ever

A couple of things to consider: 1. The numbers are skewed towards modern-day players since it’s way easier to vote now than it was back in the day. 2. Some votes may be missing as the league has only released the full results since 2017. Before …

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A couple of things to consider:

1. The numbers are skewed towards modern-day players since it’s way easier to vote now than it was back in the day.

2. Some votes may be missing as the league has only released the full results since 2017. Before that, we only got the numbers of the players with the most votes by position.

Anyway, it’s safe to say that that the Top 3 players on the list are all Laker superstars. You can check the gallery above to see the whole thing.

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All-Star vote: The players who always do better with fans than peers

For the fourth year in a row, the NBA has disclosed the vote for All-Star starters of fans, media and players. Since we now have the data of where each player ranked in the final results, we decided to look for patterns. For example, which players …

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For the fourth year in a row, the NBA has disclosed the vote for All-Star starters of fans, media and players. Since we now have the data of where each player ranked in the final results, we decided to look for patterns.

For example, which players do better with fans than with their NBA peers?

We found out 16 guys have ranked higher in the fan vote than in the players vote every year since 2017. Only two on the list have made the All-Star Game and they are both members of the world-beating Golden State Warriors: Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. Kind of makes you go ‘Hmmm’, right?

The largest disparity between player and fan vote happens with Jordan Clarkson, though, which was kind of unexpected.

For more details, you can check the gallery above. All rankings based on position and conference.