Is it too late to get people into the three-point contest? Did they already announce the roster for that when I wasn’t paying attention? If there is still a chance to do so, I humbly submit Seth Curry for consideration. He’s shooting 48% on three-pointers this season, and while his volume of shots looks low, that’s because his volume of minutes is low. He’s not a prodigious three-point chucker like Harden or Curry, but he takes and makes a fair amount of them. And, really, that’s what the three-point contest boils down to. Taking and making three-pointers. While trying to navigate a maze of ball racks.
I don’t know if Steph is going to be in it this year, but it would be cool to have the two brothers officially meet in a contest that they’ve probably informally holding against each other for their whole lives. Knowing the NBA All-Star weekend, they would probably screw it up by introducing something stupid like props, or a wonky new playoff format, or a rack of balls that are WNBA-sized rather than NBA-sized, or a whole storyline of estranged brothers who can only forgive each other if they make the same exact amount of threes in the contest. But I would still like to see it happen.