INGLEWOOD, Calif. — James Harden now stands alone at No. 2 in 3-pointers.
Harden, the Los Angeles Clippers guard, related on the two,974th 3-pointer of his profession on Sunday night time and broke a tie with Basketball Corridor of Famer Ray Allen for the No. 2 spot on the NBA’s listing.
Harden’s history-making shot got here from the precise wing with 6:09 left within the first quarter in a 116-105 victory over the Utah Jazz. The one participant forward of Harden on the listing is Golden State’s Stephen Curry at 3,782.
Harden was 2 of 8 from 3-point vary and completed with 20 factors, 11 assists and 6 rebounds.
Allen wanted 1,300 video games to make his 2,973 3-pointers. Harden handed him in 1,086 video games.
“Each of these guys,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue stated final week, “are extraordinary shooters.”
Harden is considered one of three gamers in NBA historical past to have 300 3-pointers in a season. He made 378 in 2018-19; the opposite gamers on that listing are Curry (who has finished it 5 instances, together with an NBA-record 402 in 2015-16) and Klay Thompson (who made 301 in 2022-23).
Harden is also fifteenth on the NBA’s profession listing in factors and thirteenth in assists. The one different participant who ranks within the prime 15 in scoring, assists and 3-pointers made — showing on all three lists — is LeBron James, the league’s profession scoring chief who’s fourth in assists and eighth in 3-pointers made.
Allen handed Reggie Miller for No. 1 on the 3-pointers made listing in the course of the 2010-11 season and held the document for greater than a decade. Curry handed Allen in the course of the 2021-22 season.
