Mazzulla has interesting response to criticisms of NBA’s 3-point rise

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Mazzulla has interesting response to criticisms of NBA’s 3-point rise originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The 3-point shot has never been more prevalent in the NBA, and the Boston Celtics are the best example.

The Celtics are on pace to break league records for the most 3-pointers attempted and made in a season. It’s been a successful strategy for the Celtics, who have reached the NBA Finals twice in the last three years, including a 2024 championship. They also went to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals during that span.

The Celtics aren’t the only team putting up 3s at a high rate, though. Every single team in the league is taking 30 or more 3-point shots per game this season, led by the C’s at 51.1 per game. Ten years ago in the 2014-15 season, only one team — the Houston Rockets — attempted more than 30 3-pointers per game (32.7).

NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke to reporters in Las Vegas — the site of the NBA Cup semifinals and final — earlier this week, and he noted, per ESPN’s Tim Bontemps, that the league is having “many discussions about the style of basketball [being played]. I would not reduce it to a so-called 3-point shooting issue. I think we look more holistically at the skill level on the floor, the diversity of offense, the fan reception to the game, all of the above.”

There are a few ways to potentially impact teams’ and players’ willingness to take a lot of 3-pointers. One would be to eliminate the corner 3-point shot, and another is moving the 3-point line back a little bit.

The last time the league moved the 3-point line was ahead of the 1994-95 season because scoring had declined in the early 1990s. The line was moved in, and teams ended up shooting around five more 3-pointers per game in that first season. The league went back to its original 3-point line, which is 23 feet and nine inches (22 feet in the corner), ahead of the 1997-98 campaign. It hasn’t been altered since.

It doesn’t sound like Silver or the league is considering changing the 3-point line right now.

“Historically, at times, we’ve moved the 3-point line,” Silver said, per Bontemps. “I don’t think that’s a…

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Publish date : 2024-12-18 19:30:00

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