The Denver Nuggets' two-man game with Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray has long been the staple of their offense, but without increasing their rate of three-point shooting, it may no longer be enough to ...

During the 10th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference earlier this spring, marquee events like the Moneyball reunion and a riveting NBA analytics panel packed the main auditorium at the Boston ...

LOS ANGELES - Not two weeks into the NBA season, Kevin Durant sat at his locker and grappled with the latest repercussions of the league’s three-point boom. Stephen Curry and James Harden ushered in ...

The three-point shot was officially introduced to NCAA Division I during the 1986-87 season. The collective three-point percentage has never dipped below 34 percent. Until now. Prior to the 2019-20 ...

Using Second Spectrum data, FiveThirtyEight looked at lineups since the 2014-15 season to feature three guards who each recorded at least 18 pick and rolls per 100 possessions in at least 40 team ...

Pop Warner players ages 5-10, including all offensive and defensive linemen, are prohibited from putting their hand on the ground -- a three-point stance -- before the snap. "It's just kind of ...

Volvo made history -- and the world a far safer place -- 50 years ago today when it delivered the world's first car with standard three-point safety belts. We take them for granted nowadays, but the ...

Milwaukee Bucks All-Star Damian Lillard will try to join a shortlist of three-time NBA three-point contest winners Saturday at All-Star Weekend in San Francisco. Lillard won in 2023 and 2024, needing ...

Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski wants his team to shoot three-pointers. The Blue Devils have pulled the trigger on at least 700 shots from beyond the arc in four of the last five seasons.

The NBA has changed many times over, but the biggest change was made in the addition of the 3 point shot in the 1979-80 season. The 3 point shot started as a tool to catch teams up and only a handful ...

In 1986-87, the first college basketball season in which the NCAA fully adopted the three-point shot, UNLV went all in, taking 781 attempts, the most in Division-I that year. That’s an insane number ...