NBA All-Star Weekend Three-Point Shootout

Larry Bird, the inaugural winner, won the first three contests.

The Three-Point Shootout (officially named the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout)^[1] is a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of the All-Star Weekend. In this contest, participants attempt to make as many three-point field goals as possible from five positions behind the three-point arc. Players begin shooting from one corner of the court, and move from station to station along the three point arc until they reach the other corner.^[2] At each shooting station is a rack with five basketballs. Out of the five balls, four are worth one point (the standard orange Spalding game balls) and the fifth one (a specially colored ball; often nicknamed the money ball)^[3][4] is worth two points. The goal of this contest is to score as many points as possible under the one minute mark. The perfect score is 30 points.^[5][6]

In the qualifying round, each player has a chance to score as many points as possible. The three players with the top scores advance to the finals. The final round is played in the same way as the qualifying round, though players shoot according to the ascending order of their first round scores. In each round, the shots and the score are confirmed by the referee and the television instant replay system.^[4][7] In the case of a tie, additional rounds are played to determine the winner. Contestants compete for a total of $86,000 in prize money. The first place winner receives $35,000, the second place winner receives $22,500 and the third place winner receives $15,000. Fourth to sixth places winners receive $4,500 each.^[7] From 1986 to 2002, eight participants were selected to participate in each season's shootout. Since then, the contest has been open to six players each season. The Three-Point Shootout was not held in 1999 due to the league's lockout.^[8]

Larry Bird, the inaugural winner of this contest, and Craig Hodges have each won three straight times, while Mark Price, Jeff Hornacek, Peja Stojaković and Jason Kapono have each won two consecutive times. Hodges and Kapono are tied for the scoring record with 25 points. Hodges also holds the record for making 19 consecutive shots (which were not made in his 25-point round). Michael Jordan holds the distinction of having the lowest score ever; he scored 5 points in the 1990 competition. Boston Celtics player Paul Pierce, who won the contest in the 2009–10 season, is the defending champion.^[9]

Winners

Ray Allen won the contest in the 2000–01 season while playing with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Dirk Nowitzki won the contest in the 2005–06 season.

Jason Kapono won the contest in the 2006–07 season and 2007–08 season while playing with the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat.

Season	Player	Team	Final score
1985–86	Bird, LarryLarry Bird*	Boston Celtics	&000000000000002200000022
1986–87	Bird, LarryLarry Bird* (2)	Boston Celtics (2)	&000000000000001600000016
1987–88	Bird, LarryLarry Bird* (3)	Boston Celtics (3)	&000000000000001700000017
1988–89	Ellis, DaleDale Ellis	Seattle SuperSonics	&000000000000001900000019
1989–90	Hodges, CraigCraig Hodges	Chicago Bulls	&000000000000001900000019
1990–91	Hodges, CraigCraig Hodges (2)	Chicago Bulls (2)	&000000000000001700000017
1991–92	Hodges, CraigCraig Hodges (3)	Chicago Bulls (3)	&000000000000001600000016
1992–93	Price, MarkMark Price	Cleveland Cavaliers	&000000000000001800000018
1993–94	Price, MarkMark Price (2)	Cleveland Cavaliers (2)	&000000000000002400000024
1994–95	Rice, GlenGlen Rice	Miami Heat	&000000000000001700000017
1995–96	Legler, TimTim Legler	Washington Bullets	&000000000000002000000020
1996–97	Kerr, SteveSteve Kerr	Chicago Bulls (4)	&000000000000002200000022
1997–98	Hornacek, JeffJeff Hornacek	Utah Jazz	&000000000000001600000016
1998–99[a]	—	—	&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1000000—
1999–00	Hornacek, JeffJeff Hornacek (2)	Utah Jazz (2)	&000000000000001300000013
2000–01	Allen, RayRay Allen^	Milwaukee Bucks	&000000000000001900000019
2001–02	Stojaković, PejaPeja Stojaković^[b]	Sacramento Kings	&00000000000000090000009[b]
2002–03	Stojaković, PejaPeja Stojaković^ (2)[b]	Sacramento Kings (2)	&000000000000002200000022[b]
2003–04	Lenard, VoshonVoshon Lenard	Denver Nuggets	&000000000000001800000018
2004–05	Richardson, QuentinQuentin Richardson^	Phoenix Suns	&000000000000001900000019
2005–06	Nowitzki, DirkDirk Nowitzki^	Dallas Mavericks	&000000000000001800000018
2006–07[10]	Kapono, JasonJason Kapono^	Miami Heat (2)	&000000000000002400000024
2007–08[1]	Kapono, JasonJason Kapono^ (2)	Toronto Raptors	&000000000000002500000025
2008–09	Cook, DaequanDaequan Cook^[b]	Miami Heat (3)	&000000000000001900000019[b]
2009–10	Pierce, PaulPaul Pierce^	Boston Celtics (4)	&000000000000002000000020

All-time participants

Records

Notes

• ^a The 1999 All-Star Game was canceled due to the 1998–99 NBA lockout.^[8]
• ^b Denote contests that required a tiebreaking round. The final score given here came from the tiebreaker.^[13]

References

General

• "Shootout All-Time Winners". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/allstar/shootout_alltime_winners.html. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
• "Shootout Round-by-Round Results: 2000–08". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/allstar/shootout_results_2000s.html. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
• "Shootout Round-by-Round Results: 1990–98". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/allstar/shootout_results_1990s.html. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
• "Shootout Round-by-Round Results: 1986–89". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/allstar/shootout_results_1980s.html. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
• "Shootout Records". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/allstar/shootout_alltime_records.html. Retrieved December 17, 2008. 
• "All-Star Game Contests". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/allstar/contest.html. Retrieved December 19, 2008. 

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