List of National Basketball Association career 4-point play leaders
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This is a list of National Basketball Association players by total career four-point plays made. Philadelphia 76ers statistician Harvey Pollack has kept track of the statistic since the 1979–80 season, and has recorded it in his annual book Harvey Pollack's NBA Statistical Yearbook.
| ^ | Active NBA player |
| * | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
Notable occurrences[edit]
- Sam Smith of the Chicago Bulls completed the first four-point play in NBA history on October 21, 1979, in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks.[5]
- On June 5, 1999, Larry Johnson of the New York Knicks won Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals with a four-point play. With New York trailing by three with 11.8 seconds left, Johnson received the inbounds pass and held the ball for several seconds. He then dribbled past Pacer Antonio Davis, made brief contact, and took a three-point shot. It went in, and referee Jess Kersey called a foul, and counted the shot, thus tying the game with 5.7 seconds left. Johnson then made the free throw, which proved to be the game winner for the Knicks by a score of 92-91. This play was very controversial, as Davis claimed that he had fouled Johnson before the shot.[6] The Knicks later made it to the NBA Finals, completing a run from the underdog eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.
- On April 27, 2009, James Jones of the NBA's Miami Heat completed two four-point plays in an eleven-second span during the second quarter of a playoff game against the Atlanta Hawks.[7] He shares two NBA records with Jamal Crawford—most four-point plays by one player in a single game, and most four-point plays by one player in any single quarter.
- There have only been 16 four-point plays in the history of NBA Finals. The first one happened when Andrew Toney of the Philadelphia 76ers converted the play against the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1982 NBA Finals.
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/do-you-know-jamal-crawford
- ↑ Raffel, John. "Jamal Crawford handles 4-point play better than anyone". Rantsports.com. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbzzcKY4T4
- ↑ Sam Smith. "Taxing dilemma for NBA's 2010 free agents". bulls.com. July 27, 2009. Retrieved on October 11, 2009.
- ↑ "Johnson's four-point play gives N.Y. 2-1 seies lead". SI.com. June 5, 1999. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
- ↑ "Hawks stifle Wade, knot series with Heat". NBA.com. April 27, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
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