Step-back 3s in the NBA are literally five times more popular right now than they were in 2013-14. (This season, NBA shooters are taking over 3.0 step-back 3s per 100 possessions — in 2013-14, that number was 0.60.) And that trend shows no signs of slowing, as the league’s best offenses are the ones pressing the accelerator. The Houston Rockets shoot those three times more often than the league average; the Dallas Mavericks shoot them more than twice as much. Oh, and don’t forget about Curry, the guy who really started step-back mania in his back-to-back MVP campaigns. Harden’s Rockets have been a top-three NBA offense in each of the past three seasons as he has leveraged a cartoonish volume of step-backs en route to three straight scoring titles. Meanwhile, Doncic plays a similar game and led the Mavs to nothing short of the NBA’s most efficient offensive rating in history this season. Dallas broke the record by pouring in 115.9 points per 100 possessions in 2019-20.