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The Three-Point Contest [1] is a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of All-Star weekend. The 2019 iteration of the contest involved ten participants. From its introduction in 1986 to 2018, eight participants were selected to participate in each season's shootout.
The Three-Point Contest is presented by Starry, while the WNBA Skills Challenge is presented by Kia. On July 18, 2024, Nneka Ogwumike, the current president of Women's National Basketball Players Association, announced that Aflac would be giving both winners of the 2024 skills challenge and three-point contest a $55,000 bonus. [9]
Ionescu followed up a second-place finish in the Skills Challenge with the best effort in the history of the WNBA 3-Point Contest.
However, Ionescu used a smaller WNBA regulation ball to set the record. Ionescu also competed with Curry in a head-to-head shootout at the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis, with both players shooting from the NBA 3-point line but using WNBA and NBA balls, respectively. [16] Three Point Contest champions by franchise
A dream crossover match-up. Curry is a two-time NBA three-point contest champion and holds the league’s record for most career three-pointers made (3,642).. However, in 2023, Ionescu set the ...
Ionescu set a WNBA and NBA all-time record for a single round score in the three-point contest during All-Star weekend. The New York Liberty’s point guard scored 37 out of 40 possible points ...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two of the greatest shooters in the world met up on a glass LED floor in a football stadium for a 3-point contest to remember. This wasn't the traditional version, filled with NBA ...
On October 25, 2023, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that the 2024 All-Star Game would return to the Eastern Conference versus Western Conference format that was last used in the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, alongside the removal of the 24-point Elam Ending that was first used in 2020. The charity aspect would be retained, with the team that ...