The 5 Greatest NBA shooters of all time. 5. Bird 4. Stojakovic 3. Millar 2. Allen 1. Curry Check out all the detail here thesporting.blog/blog/greates... For more NBA content check out thesporting.blog/nba
Pat Riley- "If I had to choose a player to make a shot to win the game - I'd choose Michael Jordan. If I had to choose a player to make a shot to save my life - I'd choose Larry Bird."
If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save a game I'd choose Michael Jordan; If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save my life...I'd take Larry Bird." - Pat Riley
Consider the eras. For example, Jerry West belongs on the list, even though shooting percentages were lower back then. There is a video of a 70-something West giving a talk to kids surrounding the key on a court. West was in street clothes, and was shooting shots (ranging from layups to several feet away) while chatting with the kids. He makes every single shot. It is on RU-vid and it is amazing to watch.
I am 77 years of age and watched a lot of basketball games ABA & NBA. I still think the smoothest shooter with the least effort was the Iceman George Gervin.
FACTS Here are the seasons when Wilt Chamberlain led the league in shooting percentage and his shooting percentage for each of those seasons: 1959-1960: Shooting Percentage - 46.1% 1960-1961: Shooting Percentage - 50.6% 1961-1962: Shooting Percentage - 50.4% 1962-1963: Shooting Percentage - 52.3% 1963-1964: Shooting Percentage - 52.1% 1964-1965: Shooting Percentage - 54.0% 1965-1966: Shooting Percentage - 54.0% 1966-1967: Shooting Percentage - 68.3% 1971-1972: Shooting Percentage - 57.2%
The top 5 players all deserve to be on this list. But imagine Drazen Petrovic not passing away in that tragic car accident, he would be on this list, I think. He was an incredible shooter. Accurate, hard to block because of his quick release, and reliable under pressure.
Nash is right there too. Nash was also a facilitator so his shooting was secondary. Besides Curry, Nash was a better shooter off his dribble than the rest of this list and shooting off your dribble is way harder than a set shot.
I realize that his career was shortened by the untimely accident that ended his life but I still believe that Drazen Petrovic is the absolute best pure shooter I ever saw play the game. The man was completely amazing; his death just when reaching his peak remains one of greatest, if not the greatest, tragedies in the history of the NBA. Good vid, tho'
Pat Riley- "If I had to choose a player to make a shot to win the game - I'd choose Michael Jordan. If I had to choose a player to make a shot to save my life - I'd choose Larry Bird."
You can talk all you want about the other skills, will to win, clutch shooting, etc. and all that stuff, but Steph has taken the singular skill of shooting to another level. It's not debatable
@@thesportingblog23 Dude. Really? Bird Iceman The Pistols Miller #5 is up for debate. Lucas? West? Dirk? Allen? Havelichk? Maybe even Jordan? Not Steph. Defenses aren't allowed to look hard at him. It would be like a shoot- around for all those other guys.
@@marksheppard6498 You must be about six-years-old. Curry is a fine, fine player. Excellent shooter. So was his father, who was recognized as a really good player. Steph is maybe a better player than his dad to some degree. But all you "oh he's the best ever and I want to kiss him, I want to marry him!" sort of guys know about five years of history. He will go down as "changing the game." What really happened is he's the best shooter who came along at a time the NBA changed the rules for TV that set things up for this style play, and Golden State and Steve Kerr embraced the change. If it wasn't Steph Curry, it would have been someone else who is an excellent shooter, maybe even Klay. Put them in another era, or a different team and coach, and he would be considered a "nice player, almost as good as his dad was..." Because he has a relatively slight-build. That's not knocking him, he has great skills, and fully has taken advantage of being the right age at the right time at the right place. But for anyone who says "he's the greatest of all time" means you have not the slightest appreciation of the history of the game.
@@keithgraham9547 You’re talking out of your ass to a guy that has played the game at the semi level. A guy who has taught and coached the game. A guy who was around to watch the knicks championship years and the Celtics with Dave Cowens at center. Watched Kareem when his name was Lewis. I’ve forgotten more about basketball than you’ll ever know. I’ve seen all the great shooters from Jerry West and Gail Goodrich to Steph and Klay. Stay in your lane and learn some respect,kid!
i agreed with the list with the exception of Curry in an era where just scratching a player is a fragrant foul Curry had it easy compared to Michael Larry Ray and the rest
I don't know who I would take off the list but no list of mine of great shooters can leave off Glen Rice, Bob McAdoo, and most of all, Pete Maravich. Other great shooters also come to mind, like Chris Mullen.
So let me get this straight, if the basketball leaves your hand or fingers and goes thru the basket then you have scored. So why isn't Kareem Abdul Jabbar the greatest shooter of alltime? His field goal precintage is better than any these players, but yet all of his accomplishments are all ways over looked. Plus no one ever duplicated his sky hook.
BOGUS!!! Any best-shooter list with no mention of Elgin Baylor, Pete Maravich, Jerry West or Rick Barry is simply not serious. The NBA is almost 80 years old but your picks are all recent. What, you don't think those old guys could shoot the ball? Check out West's playoff records that STILL stand!
id say best mid range to short range is MJ.... the best overall is steph or bird maybe ...im 44yo so i missed guys like jerry west george gervin etc etc ... thats tough but i like the list
Shooting was standardized back in the 80's-90's. Before then you had all sorts of shooting mechanics, but Buzz Braman brought the world a standard form and practice.
Yup, with everything-everything at stake, it's Rob Horry..Beyond that, I'd go with a different line-up. These are players who had total game, often carried their whole team, who refused to lose - in no particular order Wilt, Kareem, Kobe, King James, and French Lick's one and only. If free throws count, then hands down it's Shaq. No, no, just kidding, I'd go with Rick Barry..
You switched your numbers. Petrovic shot over .500 from the field and .400 on three-pointers, but his career was too short for him to be on a list like this.
The only player ahead of bird to win a championship as the best player on the team is Curry. It is a lot easier to score as a second or third option. I love Ray but he never was a #1 and Reggie never won it.
Let jordan be the best shooter,assist,rebound all around player as other claim let him be the goat,or acow maybe ,nobody is interested anyway as long they hold the record for most point ,rebound,assist ,block ect,most no of rings thus Mike has any of these?Just asking
Having a top 5 for greatest shooter is kind of pointless. There have been thousands of great players in the league that has existed closing on 100 years. Even if you break it down into a more exact category like percentage or pure shooter or best shooter that creates their own shot, there are still just too many choices. All of these shooters are great for the list, and could have arguments for being the best, and reasons for not being number one. Even a top 10 wouldn't scratch the surface. You can't put them in order, really, because they are all such different players with different styles and different statistics. It's impossible to tell who is truly "better" than the other. You can add Michael, who was one of the deadliest midrange shooters of all time. You can add Kerr, who was a VOLUME three-point shooter who's career percentage is 1.5% (THAT IS A HUGE MARGIN) above Hubert Davis, the next highest player's career percentage. Or Steve Nash, who was statistically a better shooter than Steph Curry (as is Steph's own brother, Seth). And you can't forget Pete Maravich, who averaged 44.2 ppg in college WITHOUT a 3-pt line (and that record still stands). Yes, that was college, but he entered the NBA and was still one of the best shooters to ever play. Mark Price was deadly, as was Jeff Hornacek, Tim Legler, and countless other pure shooters. And what about straight up shooting percentage? Kareem, Deandre Jordan, Tyson Chandler, Shaq.... their shooting percentages are through the roof, if distance from the basket isn't important. If you want to put together a good video, make the subject more specific or the number of players higher. And it will still be subjective opinion, with hundreds of players from before the year 2000 being completely forgotten.
