{"id":141328,"date":"2025-08-13T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:16:13","slug":"the-league-will-be-a-laughingstock-reggie-miller-on-why-the-nba-adding-a-four-point-line-makes-him-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141328\/","title":{"rendered":"“The league will be a laughingstock” – Reggie Miller on why the NBA adding a four-point line makes him cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The league will be a laughingstock” – Reggie Miller on why the NBA adding a four-point line makes him cringe<\/a> originally appeared on Basketball Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He can already picture it now.<\/p>\n

Some desperate team jacking up shots from nearly half court, fans gasping at the spectacle while the scoreboard tilts toward the absurd.<\/p>\n

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And somewhere in the stands, Reggie Miller<\/a> is doubled over laughing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s comical,\u201d the Hall of Famer said<\/a> of the NBA\u2019s flirtation with adding a four-point line.<\/p>\n

Miller is one of the greatest 3-point shooters the league has ever seen and the man who once held the record for most consecutive playoff games with a made 3-pointer until that cherubic-looking guy with some major super power in his right wrist broke it in the first game of the 2016 Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe league will be a laughingstock,\u201d Miller said, \u201cand I will be in front of the line laughing the loudest. Why are we always trying to change and adjust the game?\u201d<\/p>\n

A shooter\u2019s respect for the game<\/p>\n

Now, hold it right there.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just another geezer from ancient history who refuses to let go of his generation. This is a shooter who built his career on some serious confidence, and he never had to launch moonshots from the logo to prove that.<\/p>\n

During his 18-year run with the Indiana Pacers<\/a>, Miller knocked down 2,560 3-pointers \u2014 second all-time when he retired in 2005 \u2014 while shooting 39.5 percent from deep. He did it in an era when the average team attempted just 13 threes per game, a far cry from the 35-plus we see today.<\/p>\n

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Charles Barkley<\/a> is still deep-frying the Celtics for that one game somewhere. But anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of why the idea of a four-point line grates on Miller. The 3-pointer has already changed the sport so much that entire defensive schemes have had to be reinvented. It\u2019s the shot that made Curry the face of a dynasty, helped transform the Houston Rockets into an analytics experiment, and has seven of the top 1 team scoring averages in NBA history belonging to seasons played after 2017.<\/p>\n

Why it would change everything<\/p>\n

The NBA has already pushed the 3-pointer to its limit. In 1980, the first full season with the shot, league-wide accuracy sat at 28 percent. Today, it hovers around 36 percent, with players like Damian Lillard, Trae Young, and Curry regularly sinking shots from distances that would\u2019ve been considered rash \u2014 borderline stupid \u2014 in Miller\u2019s prime.<\/p>\n

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Now imagine for a second a tie game with 30 seconds left.<\/p>\n

In Miller\u2019s era, you\u2019d run a play to free up your best shooter at the arc. Now? Some coaches wouldn\u2019t mind drawing up plays to spring guys loose from 35 feet, because the math boys have been on record for years that is it the \u201cright\u201d shot.<\/p>\n

What even is a right shot these days?<\/p>\n

The moment that happens, defensive principles that have been in place for decades collapse. Zones would extend, double teams would come from awkward angles, and the spacing of the game \u2014 something players master over years \u2014 would be rewritten in a single offseason.<\/p>\n

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If the league goes through with it, Miller won\u2019t be shaking his head in silent disapproval. He\u2019ll be front row, laughing harder than anyone, watching a once finely tuned game try to survive its own thirst for spectacle.<\/p>\n

Related: “LeBron has the greatest career, but Mike is the best” – Reggie Miller settles the GOAT debate in one sentence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Basketball Network<\/a> on Aug 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The league will be a laughingstock” – Reggie Miller on why the NBA adding a four-point line makes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[18165,23229,3136,1267,1260,84232,62,21181,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-141328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-celtics","9":"tag-damian-lillard","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-reggie-miller","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-trae-young","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115019289999847270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}