The 5 best performances ever of the All Star Game Three-Point Contest 31 editions and 24 different winners, among which also an Italian player

A basket, a ball, a timer and the fundamental which the game of basketball is based on: the shoot.

This is the Three Point Challenge and it would also seem easy if it were not that to win you have to throw it in from 17 to 25 times. You have to be snipers. It is the event that together with the Slam Dunk Contest and Skill Challenge completes the program of the All Star Saturday NBA. For 25 times within a minute of time, a player must do baskets as many times as possible by throwing from 5 carts of 5 balls each (the last ball of each cart, called moneyball, is worth double). 

In 31 years of competition there have been 24 different winners and in an ocean of Americans emerge a Slavic, Peja Stojakovic, a German, Dirk Nowitzki and our Marco Belinelli, champion as outsider in 2014. Probably the American fans will have already forgotten it , but for a whole year the best shooter in the world was the big boy from San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italian pride and certainly, at least for that day, European.

In a league where all-around-players are increasingly preferred, where shooting guards come out like mushrooms but also where the real dominant centers are slowly disappearing, the 3 point shot is taking more and more importance. In a nutshell, shooting from out of the area, and above all doing it well, has become a trend today, and is the reason for the aspiration of new players who grow up in a constantly conditioned environment by people like Curry, Thompson & co.

If it is good or bad, it is not for us to say it, now there is a talk about moving the 3-point line further away or raising the basket to increase the game's coefficient of difficulty.

Before this could happened, we make a summary of the best performance of the 3 Point Challenge

 

#5 Larry Bird, Dallas 1986, Seattle 1987 e Chicago 1988