In 2974, Stephen Curry raised his hand and threw it, rolling up his sleeves and breaking Ray Allen's NBA three-point record, and from this day on, the number will be like the ball that flew to the basket, all the way forward, and then forward.
For the first 10 years, Ray Allen, who played for the Celtics, broke Reggie Miller's record of 2,560 three-pointers in 2011, and then retired in 2014, and the record was sealed for seven years. Before him, Miller's record was also held for 6 years, but from Curry's surpassing, the records of several old comrades will not stay long.
James Harden is only 51 three-pointers away from surpassing Miller into the top three in history, and he has averaged 2.5 points per game this season, that is, about 20 games, damien Lillard and LeBron James have come to the top ten goals in history. Ray Allen's 2973 took a full 1300 games, Miller played 1389 2560, and Curry split that number almost out of it, using only 789 games.
The sound of the times is two words, three points.
According to AMERICAN media statistics, when the NBA introduced the three-point line in the 79-80 season, each team averaged only 2.8 three-point shots per game, and by the 09-10 season, Curry's rookie year, the average was 18.1 times. Even in the 14-15 season, when Curry and the Warriors won the championship for the first time, there were only 22.4 times, but this season has soared to 35.4 times.
This is not the era created by Curry alone, but he is indeed a card figure who conforms to and promotes the era of the three-point torrent. Nowadays, looking at the basketball court, the children who have just stepped on the court have regarded the three-point line as their territory, and the little sharpshooters are trying to adjust the scope.
Coincidentally, the CBA's three-point record rides the tide of the times and is also in progress. As early as two years ago, Lester Hudson, who was still playing for the Liaoning Flying Leopards, faced Shenzhen in the 18-19 season and scored the 1608th career three-pointer, surpassing Zhu Fangyu to become the three-point king in CBA history.
Zhu Fangyu used the most 683 appearances in the history of the CBA, in exchange for 1607 three-pointers, a total of 18 seasons (the CBA's historical three-pointers are including the sum of the regular season and the playoffs). When Hudson surpassed him, it took only 356 games, and Zhu Fangyu averaged 2.35 three-pointers per game in his career, compared with 4.5 at the time.
So, who surpassed Zhu Fangyu's three-point record?
In the 11-12 season, on December 30, 2011, Zhu Fangyu and Guangdong visited Zhejiang, and in the second half, he scored the third three-pointer, incidentally surpassing the 1095 of The Bayi men's basketball star Li Nan in the total number of career hits, and successfully climbed to the first place in league history. After that, Zhu Fangyu stayed in the first place in history for more than 7 years, until Hudson surpassed him.
"Little Li Flying Knife" Li Nan has played 14 seasons in his CBA career, and he is also the first player in league history to hit 1,000 three-pointers. He played a total of 417 games in his career, averaging 2.6 three-pointers per game, which was similar to Zhu Fangyu as a whole, and the age difference between the two when they retired was almost the same.
Hudson is not the only big three-pointer in foreign aid, and the foreign aid Pool Jeter, who led Shandong to the finals, also threw 1,037 three-pointers in only 282 games, and now ranks 8th in history. Josh Aknon, a foreign player who played for Liaoning in the 12-13 season, produced almost the same three-point output as Hudson, averaging 4.5 three-pointers per game in his career.
The CBA's three-point spectrum is confusing, and the best homegrown shooters were very early on.
Hu Weidong, a retired "China Jordan" in 2005, played a total of 262 games in his career, hit 876 three-pointers, averaging 3.35 per game, and in the most terrifying 99-00 season of his career, he averaged 17.3 three-point shots per game, which is simply incredible. If it were not for the fact that he was 25 years old when the CBA was founded and had only played in the CBA for 10 years, Li Nan and Zhu Fangyu would have been difficult to approach his three-point record.
But he is not the fiercest, Jilin Tiger King Sun Jun, in his career played 219 games, shot 748 three-pointers, averaging more than 3.4 per game. Sun Jun's peak 02-03 season, with 47.2% three-point shooting rate of 4.5 three-pointers per game, averaged 33 points per game in the season, he and Hu Weidong are similar in age, is the projection legend of that era, but history limits them.
In fact, the CBA's three-point era came very early, as early as twenty years ago, the older generation of players knew what their advantages were against the international arena, especially the NBA's devilish flesh. Sun Jun scored 70 points in the league, and South Korea's Xu Zai once scored 62 points in a single game at the World Championships, not only in the Chinese league, but also in the entire East Asian projection.
In the CBA's three-point rankings, two factors have a very big impact, one is the influx of foreign aid, and the other is the change in the number of games in the season. Although Hudson, like Curry today, surpassed his predecessors in almost half the time, and has been constantly breaking the CBA's historical three-point record since 2019, is the CBA also in the three-point tide?
In the 98-99 season, Guangdong averaged 30.5 three-pointers and hit 10.9 shots in the regular season, which was the first team in CBA history to average 30+ three-pointers per game. Hongyuan has always had a smart fast-playing Southern Pai gene in his bones, and they were the most popular long-range shooting teams in the previous season, and this season, because the CBA used a 12-minute system per quarter, the data grew again.
In complete contrast to Guangdong, Liaoning averaged just 17.7 three-pointers per game.
Bayi and Liaoning, who reached the finals that season, turned out to be the two teams that shot the fewest three points in the league, so it can be seen that the importance of three points that year was indeed not high enough. It wasn't until the 00-01 season that Bayi became the first team to shoot three-point first (30.4 times) in the regular season and win the championship at the same time.
As mentioned earlier, when Curry first entered the NBA, the league averaged only 18.1 three-point shots, while in the previous season's 08-09 season, only 6 teams in the NBA shot more than 20 points, and the least Thunder had only 11.6 times. In the CBA of the same period, for the first time in history, all teams averaged more than 20 three-point shots per game.
At that time, the CBA and the NBA trend were the opposite, and the basketball world believed that orthodoxy was better confrontation, and only against weak teams and leagues would there be a lot of three-point projection. However, the NBA has seen strong teams with excellent three-pointers, the most representative of which is the 06-07 Suns and the 08-09 Magic, who are at the top of the three-point shooting and record at the same time.
The NBA's three-point trend is based on this, and it began to run wildly, the Mavericks in 10-11, the Knicks in the 12-13 season, the Cavaliers, rockets and Warriors in the 14-15 season, all of which are in the top five teams in the league in terms of three-point shooting and the top three teams in the East and West Divisions. Coupled with the heat's small lineup, these characteristics were all incorporated into Curry's Warriors, and eventually, the wind of the times blew from Golden State to the basketball world.
In the same period, after the 11-12 season hudson's Qingdao and the 12-13 Akgenon's Liaoning, the exploration of these two teams, the 13-14 season, Xinjiang finally reached the finals at the same time as the three-point shot in the regular season. However, Hudson missed the opportunity to become Curry, he was 2 of 17 in the first two three-point games, although 13 of 25 in the last four games, but he could not break Beijing in the end.
A few years later, the CBA also ushered in a three-point wave.
In the 17-18 season, the league's three-point shots surged, and Xinjiang averaged 37 per game, even in the NBA at that time, it was second only to the Houston Rockets' magic ball. However, the NBA continued to run wildly, and by these two seasons, there were several teams that averaged more than 40 three-point shots per game in the regular season every year, while the CBA was just the opposite, gradually falling back, with only a few teams more than 30 times a year.
The key factor involved in the CBA's change was that the foreign aid was changed from 4 quarters and 6 people to 4 sessions and 4 people, and the reduction in foreign aid time actually caused the decline in the overall three-point shot. Of course, the most important thing is the influence of FIBA rules, the CBA has always hovered in the sound of the times, Yi Qiang.
In the past many years, after the national team lost Yao Ming's giant barrier, the projection of the Chinese men's basketball team has been criticized by people, and many people are nostalgic for the accurate projection of the older generation of national players in the earlier years. This is also the direction of the development of modern basketball, fast, efficient and accurate, and the status of three points is getting higher and higher.
In the past two years, Guangdong's whirlwind of fast-play has dominated the league, and the successful rise of Zhejiang last season has led some teams to start experimenting with the transformation of style. This process is not like the whirlwind effect brought about by the Warriors' victory, but more like the sun, magic, James's one-star Heat and Cavaliers before the Warriors, and it is exploring the possibility of the trend change in the era.
Although Hudson has already broken the CBA's all-time three-point record, and he will return to the league soon to continue to break records, his peak has not been able to merge with the tide of the times like Curry, and he is now 37 years old.
If in the next few years, the CBA enters the era of three-point tide like the NBA, then the league also needs to have Curry, Harden, Lillard and other types of players to lead the trend, of course, or there are players like Yao Ming to drag basketball back to the inside line.
The change in the direction of the NBA wind has accelerated because of Curry and the Warriors, and the CBA is also at the corner of history, will there be such players and teams?