Greatest 3-point shooters ever

Stephen Curry▲ Rising

Game 6 of the 2016 conference finals against Oklahoma City, the pull-up from the logo that made him windmill his arm before it even splashed — that's the shot that told the world the three-point line was no longer a boundary but a suggestion. He didn't just break the single-season three-point record, he obliterated it multiple times and forced every franchise in the league to rebuild its offense around spacing. There's no argument for the greatest shooter ever that doesn't start and end with the man who turned a low-percentage shot into the league's primary weapon.

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Ray Allen▲ Rising

With 5.2 seconds left in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals, down three, Allen backpedaled to the corner, squared his feet perfectly, and buried the shot that saved Miami's dynasty — a moment of pure mechanical precision under the highest possible stress. He retired as the all-time makes leader for over a decade, a record once considered untouchable, built on a famously obsessive pregame routine that never varied. Allen is the standard against which shooting form itself is measured — the smoothest, most repeatable stroke the game has seen.

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Reggie Miller▲ Rising

Eight points in 8.9 seconds against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, complete with the choke sign to Spike Lee, is the single greatest clutch shooting sequence in playoff history and it happened before analytics ever validated the three as a weapon. He built his entire Hall of Fame career on movement shooting and shameless trash talk, dragging Indiana to relevance year after year on volume and audacity alone. Miller is the bridge between the three-pointer as gimmick and the three-pointer as identity, and he terrorized New York doing it.

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Larry Bird▲ Rising

Before the three-point line was even taken seriously, Bird won the inaugural NBA Three-Point Contest in 1986 without taking his warm-up jacket off, an act of pure disrespect toward the field that became instant legend. He shot with a lethargic, flat-footed release that looked nothing like modern shooters, yet he was automatic from deep at a time when almost nobody in the league bothered to be. Bird belongs on this list as the proof-of-concept — the guy who showed the three could be a superstar's weapon, not a specialist's gimmick, decades before the league caught up.

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Damian Lillard▼ Falling

"Logo Lillard" isn't a nickname, it's a genre — the series-ending, buzzer-beating 37-footer over Paul George in 2019 that ended Oklahoma City's season and sent him strolling off waving goodbye. He's turned the deep three into a fourth-quarter assassination tool, hunting shots from distances that used to be considered heat-check territory and making them a base-case offense. Lillard's case rests on turning the improbable rainbow three into the most reliable building block of Portland's entire late-game strategy for a decade.

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Klay Thompson

Thirty-seven points in a single quarter against Sacramento, or the 60-point game on 11 dribbles, or the 14 threes he dropped on the Bulls in one night — Klay's signature isn't one moment, it's the sheer statistical violence of a shooter who needs almost no space and no rhythm to get hot. Paired with Curry, he formed the deadliest shooting backcourt ever assembled and helped author a dynasty, all while playing lockdown defense that few pure shooters ever bother with. He belongs here because he proved a killer catch-and-shoot game could be just as lethal as any dribble-heavy one.

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Kyle Korver▼ Falling

In 2014-15 he shot over 49% from three on major volume, a season so absurd it's still cited as the statistical high-water mark for shooting efficiency in NBA history. Korver made a 17-year career almost entirely off his catch-and-shoot gravity, running through screens like a track athlete and forcing defenses to warp their entire scheme around a guy who rarely dribbled. He's on this list because no one has ever punished a closeout more efficiently or made off-ball movement shooting into such a precise science.

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JJ Redick▼ Falling

Redick turned relentless off-ball movement into a career-defining art form, running through more screens per game than anyone in modern history and converting that constant motion into one of the most efficient high-volume shooting careers ever. He never had Curry's gravity-bending range or Miller's killer instinct, but his sheer technical repetition — the same release, the same footwork, possession after possession for 15 years — made him a coach's dream and a defense's nightmare in the corners. His place here is earned through pure, unglamorous mastery of shooting as a craft rather than a hi

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