[SI] James Harden Establishes Himself as One of the Greatest Shooters Ever

rockbox · Mar 22, 2019

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https://www.si.com/nba/2019/03/22/james-harden-houston-rockets-greatest-nba-three-point-shooters

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By raw percentage, it would be easy to find Harden’s credentials (35.8% this season, 36.3% for his career) lacking. It would also be a rather extreme case of divorcing shots from their context. One might fight that Horace Grant converted a higher percentage on mid-range set shots than Michael Jordan did on fadeaways, but the function of each is totally different. The same goes for Harden relative to catch-and-shoot types. Just because Steve Kerr (45.4%) and Hubert Davis (44.1%) have the highest career three-point percentages doesn’t mean we have to regard them as the best three-point shooters of all time. The circumstances that created those numbers has to matter, or else the numbers lose all meaning. Steve Nash deserves consideration as one of the NBA’s great shooters, even though he never took as many threes as we now know he should have. There’s a place in the conversation for Larry Bird, even though he only made as many threes in a season as Harden might in a month.
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