{"id":416829,"date":"2026-01-18T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:04:09","slug":"celtics-sam-hauser-made-absurd-nba-3-point-history-with-stats-never-done-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416829\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Sam Hauser made absurd NBA 3-point history with stats never done before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Hauser wasn&#8217;t shy about letting it fly.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a>&#8216; sharpshooter tried to prove he was exactly that on Saturday night, and he did so in a historic manner.<\/p>\n<p>Hauser shot the basketball 21 times in a win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>None of those shots came at the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>None of those shots came on 2-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, all 21 of Hauser&#8217;s shot attempts on Saturday were from beyond the 3-point arc.<\/p>\n<p>He made 10 of them, for 30 points.<\/p>\n<p>No one had ever taken that many 3s in a game without another attempt.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sam Hauser took 21 3\u2019s tonight without taking a 2.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s never happened in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Grande (@SeanGrandePBP) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanGrandePBP\/status\/2012724606352699745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lebron-james-ownership-stake-liverpool-mind-blowingly-good-investment\/e312406c19c4f43ec3defcfd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LeBron&#8217;s ownership stake in Liverpool looks brilliant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hauser supplemented what was a 41-point night for Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p>He also added six rebounds, three assists, a steal and a block.<\/p>\n<p>Hauser is known as a shooter, but this was an absurd game of heat checks after heat checks.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it was pretty darn awesome.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Hauser wasn&#8217;t shy about letting it fly. The Boston Celtics&#8216; sharpshooter tried to prove he was exactly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-416829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}