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THE NBA’S THREE-POINT REVOLUTION HAS GOTTEN EXTREME. HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?


WITH THE DEFENDING CHAMPION BOSTON CELTICS LEADING THE WAY, THREE-POINT SHOOTING
IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL HAS REACHED GAME-CHANGING HEIGHTS.

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LOS ANGELES — Not two weeks into the NBA season, Kevin Durant sat at his locker
and grappled with the latest repercussions of the league’s three-point boom.
Stephen Curry and James Harden ushered in basketball’s perimeter revolution
roughly a decade ago, but a disorienting new era has swept through the league.


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