Along with Ray Allen, Radmanovic, Lenard and Korver. Mike Miller said he would've accepted, but he already had plans for vacation. I wish he would've accepted it though because it would've been nice to see someone different in the contest for a change.
Richardson, Johnson to Shoot Threes
on All-Star Saturday
Posted: Feb. 7, 2005
Phoenix Suns swingman Quentin Richardson, the NBA leader in three-point field goals made and attempted this season, and guard Joe Johnson, who ranks among the league leaders in three-point field goal percentage, highlight a field of six in the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout, to be held on NBA All-Star Saturday Night presented by America Online, February 19 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.
Richardson will make his second appearance in the event, while Johnson will be making his first. “Q” tied for fourth place in the 2002 Shootout in Philadelphia when he was a member of the Los Angeles Clippers. Both are the Suns’ first three-point shot participants since 1995 when Dan Majerle finished tied for seventh place during the 1995 All-Star Weekend held in Phoenix. They are the third and fourth Suns players all-time to be named to the Shootout (Majerle, ’93 and ’95 and Jeff Hornacek, ’92). No Suns player has ever won the event since it debuted in 1986.
Richardson, who is averaging 15.8 points and 6.6 rebounds in 49 games in his first season with Phoenix, leads the league with 149 three-point field goals made and 422 three-point field goals attempted. Both totals put him on a pace to shatter Majerle’s club record 199 three-point field goals made and 548 three-point field goals attempted, both set in 1994-95. If the fifth-year pro maintains his current pace, the 24-year-old would finish with the third-most three-point field goals made (249) and the most three-point field goals attempted in NBA history (706).
Johnson, 23, is averaging 16.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 49 games, while shooting .454 from three-point range, third-best in the NBA. The fourth-year pro is the first Suns player to rank among the league leaders in three-point field goal percentage since Rodney Rogers had a .439 three-point field goal percentage (fourth) in 1999-2000.
As a team, the Suns are averaging 9.33 three-pointers made through 49 games, the highest average in NBA history (prev. 8.96, Dallas Mavericks in 1995-96).
Rounding out the field of six are defending champion Voshon Lenard of the Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia’s Kyle Korver, and Seattle’s Ray Allen and Vladimir Radmanovic.
