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Larry Bird, Ray Allen cited among greatest shooters of all time

In a recent analysis of the second-best shooters ever after Stephen Curry, two Boston Celtics made the cut.

In a recent analysis of the second-best shooters ever after Stephen Curry put together by Hoops Hype’s Frank Urbina, two Boston Celtics made the cut from a fairly broad field of historical sharpshooters.

Urbina drew from a veritable “who’s who” of the best long-distance marksmen to see who wins the silver behind the Hoops Hype analysts’ greatest of all shooters in league history in Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry. Other names besides Larry Bird and Ray Allen included Damian Lillard, Klay Thompson, Reggie Miller, Kevin Durant, Steve Nash, Kyle Korver, Predrag Stojakovic, Drazen Petrovic, and Oscar Schmidt.

Let’s take a look at some of what Urbina had to say about the Celtics on that list — as well as who he believes is No. 2 on the list of the greatest shooters of all time.

Every player in Philadelphia 76ers history who has worn No. 26

Here is a list of the nine players in the history of the Philadelphia 76ers who have worn the No. 26 uniform.

It’s summertime in the NBA, so it’s time to learn some history. The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the older franchises in the NBA. Their history dates to the 1949-50 season.

With that longevity, the team has had hundreds of players come through the City of Brotherly Love. Sixers Wire looks at the No. 26, which has been worn by nine of those players in the history of the franchise.

This running series will go through all of the uniform numbers worn in franchise history. The previous edition of this series was a list compiling the only player who has worn the No. 27.

Here is the list of the nine players who have worn No. 26 in Sixers history:

A list of the top 10 3-point shooters in Philadelphia 76ers history

Here is a list of the top 10 3-point shooters in the storied history of the Philadelphia 76ers.

With the Saturday night festivities taking place in Cleveland at All-Star weekend, now is the time to look back at some of the best 3-point shooters in the storied history of the Philadelphia 76ers.

While the Sixers do not have a participant in the 3-point shootout on Saturday, they have had elite shooters pass through in the City of Brotherly Love. Kyle Korver, JJ Redick and Seth Curry are among those who have passed through and bombed away from deep for the franchise.

With the 3-point shootout set for Saturday, Sixers Wire has compiled a list of the top 10 3-point shooters in the history of the Sixers. Two members of the list are still active and are noted with an asterisk since they can, obviously, still move up.

The top 10 leaders in 3-pointers made in Sixers history per basketball-reference:

Former Sixers shooter Kyle Korver says Allen Iverson gave him confidence

Former Philadelphia 76ers shooter Kyle Korver credits Allen Iverson for helping him gain confidence.

Retired NBA player Kyle Korver was not supposed to have the type of successful career he ended up with. He was the 51st pick in the 2003 NBA draft and was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for cash and a fax machine.

He joined a team led by the legendary Allen Iverson. He was asked to provide shooting next to him to allow Iverson space need to operate. Playing next to a guy like Iverson can put a lot of pressure on a young player that is tough to overcome.

Korver spent 4 1/2 seasons in Philadelphia before being traded to the Utah Jazz. He shot 40.9% from deep during his time with the Sixers and he credited Iverson for helping him along the way.

Korver hopped on JJ Redick’s “The Old Man and the Three” podcast to discuss his playing days with Iverson:

AI was amazing to me. I was a second-round pick, I’m not guaranteed the first year or the second year, and like what you need more than anything is just some confidence, like just believe that you belong on this court. So we had no one else on the team who could shoot at all and like for AI, like if you can’t shoot, like, why would I pass it to you? I’ll just shoot it, right? So he was like, the arm around me every day like ‘shoot the ball, shooters shoot the ball.’ Just like breathing confidence in me. He’s legend, right? Like he’s in another stratosphere, just like his legendary, iconic career and in personality and image and just to have that person with me encouraged me. He was amazing for me. He was one of my favorite teammates.

Korver went on to have a successful 17-year career. He shot 42.9% from deep for his career while being named an All-Star in 2015 with the Atlanta Hawks.

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Brooklyn Nets: Will Bruce Brown play a bigger role in game No. 2?

Bruce Brown only logged four minutes in the season opener against the Milwaukee Bucks, and he was missed on the floor.

It is just the beginning of the season and coach Steve Nash is working out his rotations, but many Nets fans were surprised to see Bruce Brown playing just four minutes on opening night.

This is the same player that opted not only to stay on the Nets for one more year, but the player who also was willing to play any position he was asked to play last season. It is also the same player who suited up with a broken nose before heading into the playoffs last year.

Brown was a very productive player for the Nets last season. The Boston native averaged 8.8 PPG, 5.4 RPG and 1 SPG on an efficient 56% shooting from the field. Brown takes pride in his quality shot selection, but it was primarily his defense that made him stand out.

After a pivotal Game 2 win against the Milwaukee Bucks last year in the playoffs where Brown displayed his defensive brilliance, Kevin Durant was left praising the 25-year old.

“Playing against him in the last two years, nobody really knew him in Detroit, but when you played against him and you got him in the scouting report, he kind of disrupted our flow when I was in Golden State a bit.”

One of Brown’s flaws on the court has indeed been identified as his 3-point shooting. This offseason, however, the Boston native made sure to work on this part of his game. He even spent time with one of the best shooters of all-time in Kyle Korver, one of the new members of the player development staff, to work on his shot.

As head coach Steve Nash further experiments with new lineups, there is a chance that Brown can return to the court and have a bigger role again.

“We took a look at the big lineups, we don’t want to overreact,” said Nash following the loss to the Bucks on Tuesday. “I don’t know if it was big, small lineups, whatever. We just didn’t play well tonight … As we explore those lineups. As we critique and assess those lineups, we have to be patient.”

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Kyle Korver is on a mission to help improve Nic Claxton’s shot

Sharpshooter Kyle Korver has been working with Nic Claxton’s jumper for two months now.

Before the Nets hired one of the game’s best sharpshooters of all-time in Kyle Korver as a player development assistant coach, the former All-Star had already made his mark in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn big man Nicolas Claxton told Alex Schiffer of the Athletic that in early August, before it was even announced that Korver would be the Nets new assistant, the sharpshooter worked with him in his hometown of Greenville.

Korver drove two hours before getting busy with Claxton. In their time together, the new Nets assistant targeted the young big man’s problem as a shooter: Consistency. Claxton told Schiffer, “Everything that he does is easy for me to understand. Of course his body of work, what he did, speaks for itself. But everything is relatable. He knows how to get through.”

Last season, Claxton shot only 20% from three and 49% from the free throw line. This barely scratched the surface of the numbers he put up playing for the Long Island Nets in the 2019-20 campaign. There, the 22-year-old shot 56% from three and 77% from the free throw line. It’s only a matter of time before Korver unleashes this potential within Claxton.

More importantly, the process is made easier because of the way Korver teaches. Head coach Steve Nash told Schiffer, “He’s a teacher, a natural teacher. I think he has a great methodology with the way he teaches and instructs. Kind of a deep learning and real purpose with why he teaches the way he does.”

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Report: Kyle Korver, Steve Clifford join Nets coaching staff

Kyle Korver and Steve Clifford are joining Steve Nash’s coaching staff.

It has been a long time coming for former NBA sharpshooter Kyle Korver to make his return to the basketball scene. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the one-time All-Star will join the Brooklyn Nets as a player development assistant coach. Korver’s expertise will make an immediate impact on the team, particularly for Brooklyn’s shooters.

Steve Clifford is also set to join the Nets as a coaching consultant per Malika Andrews of ESPN. Clifford was last seen as head coach of the Orlando Magic this year, leading them to a 21-51 record, before parting ways. Remember, Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash is already familiar with Clifford. In the 2012-13 season the former Magic coach was an assistant coach on the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course, this was around the time when Nash was a member of the purple and gold.

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Inside the NBA had Kyle Korver call Dwayne Wade an ‘absolute bum’ on accident as an April Fool’s Day prank and it was hilarious

“Absolute bum.” LOL

Kyle Korver is a relatively new face for the Inside the NBA crew. He took over Candace Parker’s seat for a bit for Thursday night’s games along with Dwyane Wade, Shaq and Adam Lefkoe.

And, of course, Thursday was April Fool’s day. So, of course, the crew was going to pull a prank on the new guy. They got Kyle Korver good.

They had him reading off of a teleprompter for a new promotion that the network was supposedly having. By the end of it, it turned into him bashing Dwyane Wade.

It was absolutely hilarious. Korver had no idea what was going down until it was too late.

“This week, we look at the worst teammates in league history. My pick? Dwyane Wade. Absolute bum.” 

THIS WAS INCREDIBLE. Just look at Korver’s face as soon as he realized what he was reading.

Priceless. April Fool’s day sucks, in general. But this was a pretty good one.

The top 10 3-point shooters in the history of the Philadelphia 76ers

Take a look at the top 10 3-point shooters in Philadelphia 76ers history.

With the Philadelphia 76ers and the rest of the NBA at the All-Star break, it is time for the festivities to begin. Well, sort of. All of the regular All-Star events will happen, except for the Rising Stars Challenge, and they will all happen on Sunday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

While the Sixers will not have a representative in the 3-point shootout, now is the time to go back and take a look at some of the top 3-point shooters in the storied history of one of the NBA’s oldest franchises.

The following is a list of the players who have made the most 3-point field goals in franchise history per basketball-reference:

Kyle Korver gives powerful interview on how the Bucks decided to boycott a playoff game

He takes us behind the scenes.

Back in August, the Milwaukee Bucks chose to boycott their playoff game against the Orlando Magic in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a decision that reverberated throughout the NBA and sports world, led to more boycotts and shifted the conversation to where it should be.

So what exactly happened in the Bucks’ locker room that day?

Kyle Korver revealed it while speaking at his alma mater, Creighton, earlier in the week, and the level of detail he goes into reveals as emotional as you could have imagined back in August.

He spoke about assistant coach Darvin Ham in tears taking apart an area of the locker room, George Hill and Sterling Brown saying they wouldn’t play, what was going through Korver’s head as a white man (“You know what you do? You stand with the marginalized”), the calls with the governor of Wisconsin and Blake’s family and so much more.

Trust me: take the time to watch this.

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