{"id":950861,"date":"2026-11-03T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950861\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:42:28","slug":"lamelo-ball-outpaces-stephen-curry-in-historic-nba-three-point-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950861\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball outpaces Stephen Curry in historic NBA three-point achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaMelo Ball is now the fastest player in NBA history to reach 1,000 three-pointers made.<\/p>\n<p>LaMelo Ball is now officially the fastest player in NBA history to reach 1,000 career three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The star guard clinched the historic feat on Monday after leading the Minnesota Timberwolves&#8217; 112-100 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>A three-pointer with 10:29 to go during the first quarter propelled Ball towards the historic feat, where he finished with 34 points on 12-of-21 shooting (6-of-13 threes) with six boards and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2117431241951592864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  LaMelo Ball leads list of fastest players to reach 1k 3-pointers <\/p>\n<p>LaMelo Ball hit his 1,000th career three-pointer in just 311 games, making him the fastest ever to reach the mark.<\/p>\n<p>He simply surpassed the record established by Duncan Robinson, as the veteran sharpshooter needed 343 games to splash a thousand triples.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry, the NBA&#8217;s all-time leader in three-pointers made, ranks sixth in the category.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2117448613957976231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  <\/p>\n<p>Now in a new chapter as the franchise guard of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ball is slated to make more special feats and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_2\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793695348_873_bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Subscribe to BN+ and get access to exclusive content.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball is now the fastest player in NBA history to reach 1,000 three-pointers made. LaMelo Ball is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-950861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}