The Greatest Shooter Ever

Let me pull the career three-point totals from the game logs.

Stephen Curry stands alone at the top with 4,013 career three-pointers made. He's 848 threes ahead of James Harden in second place - that's roughly two full elite seasons worth of threes. The gap between #1 and #2 is larger than the gap between #2 and #8.

Great question. Let me trace his three-point volume over the years.

The evolution is remarkable. As a rookie in 2009, Curry averaged just 1.2 three-pointers per game. By 2015-2016 - his unanimous MVP season - he was up to 4.6 per game. His peak came in 2021 at 5.4 threes per game. That's a 4x increase in volume while maintaining elite accuracy. He didn't just change his game, he changed how the entire league plays.

Here are his top 10 scoring performances.

His career high is 62 points against Portland on January 3, 2021 - and he did it on just 8 three-pointers. His second-highest game (57 points vs Dallas) included 11 threes. Notice how many of his biggest games came in 2021 - that was his scoring peak at age 33, which is unusual for an NBA player.

Let me show you the distribution across all his games.

His most common outcome is 3 made threes (181 games), with 2 and 5 being nearly as frequent. The distribution shows a nice bell curve centered around 3-4 threes, but with a long right tail stretching all the way to 13 - his single-game record. He's had 22 games with 10+ threes made, and only 49 games where he didn't make any. For context, many good three-point shooters would be thrilled to average what Curry does on a quiet night.