Basketball Rules: triple shooting

Although we may seem that the release of three points in basketball is relatively new (its use in the NBA was introduced in 1979-80), its origins date back to 1933, to counteract the high man in the sport basket.

However, until 1945 was not tested in official competition in an NCAA college game. You still would be 40 years for implanting in the NBA basketball, but another professional league was more agile and introduced in 1961. It was the ABA League. Not pregnant this competition saw only a half season of life, although it was the other League ABA, which originated in 1967 and lovingly tried three times to fight the NBA League.

Thus arose the first triple contests (along with math), until the three came to the NBA in 1979. On 12 October of that year, Chris Ford, the Boston Celtics, won the first triple of the history of the NBA.

FIBA basketball three times did not come until the year 1984, just after that final between Spain and the United States Olympic Games in Los Angeles (with Michael Jordan and university playing).

However, the distance that the three points are achieved has not been standardized, and the FIBA basketball is closer than the NBA. Distance on American soil is not constant, being 7.23 meters on the front and 6.70 on the sides, where the line three stops being a circle into a straight line. In FIBA rules, the distance is constant, standing at 6.25 meters, while in the League WNBA (female) and American college basketball is set to the distance 6.32 meters.

The three, along with the mate, the play becomes more characteristic of basketball, and has been, of course, the subject of many records. as 12 triples made by Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall in a game or three consecutive championships with Larry Bird who dominated the league in its early years. This milestone would be repeated some years later by the hand of Craig Hodges, who also, along with Jason Kapono, holds the record of scoring in Triples Competition.

Peja Stojakovic was not the first player who got the victory in the triples competition, with Germany's Dirk Nowitzki only repeat what he has achieved.

And remember, do not tread the line by launching a triple! The draft will be considered from two points. That yes, you can jump start from the outside and fall within the zone two, which will remain triple.

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