The Denver Nuggets are the Best 3-Point Shooting Team in the NBA

Ty Thomas
Letters from a Sports Fan
3 min readNov 15, 2022

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It’s official, the Denver Nuggets’ offense has been on fire. The Nuggets lead the league in 3-point percentage (42.2%) this season. The next closest team is under 40.0%. They currently hold three of the top seven spots in 3-point percentage this season.

What happened to make the Nuggets the best 3-point shooting team in the league this year?

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Similar to playing with a playmaker like LeBron James in Los Angeles, the back-to-back MVP Nikola Jokic has been finding a wide open KCP quite often. KCP has been putting up career numbers through his first 12 games as a Denver Nugget.

He has become an amazing piece of an off-season trade that shipped Monte Morris and Will Barton to Washington in exchange for KCP and Ish Smith. KCP is the 3&D player that the Nuggets desperately needed.

Michael Porter Jr.

Arguably the best 3-point shooter in the league this season, MPJ has been very comfortable in this…

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Ty Thomas
Letters from a Sports Fan

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