Ranking the Top 30 NBA Shooters Ahead of 2026-27

Debating top-10-star status has become a rite of passage for NBA fandom.

But why stop there? Heading into the 2026-27 season, the B/R NBA staff is ready to litigate who's who among the Association's best—not only from an all-around perspective but also in several skill categories.

Up next: the league's best shooters.

For this exercise, we asked voters to rank players, weighting three-point shooting at roughly 65 percent and mid-range shooting at 35 percent.

As in seasons past, we're not predicting where players will finish in April. This is a breakdown of where the league stands right now, meaning players set to start the year sidelined or unsigned aren't included. Sorry, Seth Curry.

Read on to see how the list shook out.

Player summaries by Grant Hughes. Also see: Ranking the 99 Best NBA Players Ahead of 2026-27, which includes a full methodology breakdown.

30. Trey Murphy III, New Orleans Pelicans

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Career Stats: 45.9 FG%, 38.2 3P%, 57.2 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 47.0 FG%, 37.9 3P%, 57.2 eFG%

No, dunks don't count toward a player's shooting ability for our purposes. If they did, Trey Murphy III would be at least a dozen spots higher. Out of all the flamethrowers on this list, he's the one most likely to pass up a triple in order to posterize a hapless opponent.

Despite spending most of his career with an underwhelming set of New Orleans Pelicans teammates, Murphy has settled in as one of the more consistent long-range threats around. He topped out at 40.6 percent from deep in 2022-23 and has gradually lost some of his efficiency as his role has grown and his shot quality has decreased.

Get him onto a team with real setup men and a more functional system, and Murphy could easily rack up 25.0 points per game while threatening a 50/40/90 shooting split.

29. CJ McCollum, Atlanta Hawks

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Career Stats: 45.3 FG%, 39.5 3P%, 53.0 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 45.5 FG%, 37.5 3P%, 53.8 eFG%

Willowy 6'3" guards with limited athleticism can't average at least 20.0 points per game for 10 straight seasons unless they're deadly from the perimeter.

Last year, CJ McCollum's 20-point streak came to an end as he averaged 18.7 points for the Wizards and Hawks, but that had more to do with a dip in minutes than a decline in skill. McCollum still shot 45.5 percent from the field on a steady diet of jumpers, and the champion Knicks know how dangerous he is in the clutch.

McCollum has always had enough shake to create pull-up chances, and he shot 37.6 percent on off-the-dribble treys last year. Rounding out his shooting profile, the 13-year vet has also consistently been one of the very best mid-range marksmen in the game.

28. OG Anunoby, New York Knicks

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Career Stats: 47.6 FG%, 37.7 3P%, 56.3 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.4 FG%, 38.6 3P%, 58.1 eFG%

The defense and a timely tip-in come to mind first when thinking of OG Anunoby, but the lockdown forward has also been a consistently excellent bomber since he entered the league with a 37.1 percent accuracy mark in 2017-18.

When Anunoby started to add real volume in 2020-21, bumping his deep attempts per 100 possessions from 5.2 to 8.8, he cemented himself as one of the top three-and-D weapons in the league. That's a label he's held ever since.

Since becoming a full-time starter in 2019-20, Anunoby has never been better than 39.8 percent or worse than 36.3 percent from long distance. Consistency like that isn't so easy to come by when you also spend most of your time wrangling the opponent's most dangerous scoring threat.

27. Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns

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Career Stats: 46.3 FG%, 35.2 3P%, 52.0 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 45.6 FG%, 33.0 3P%, 50.7 eFG%

Devin Booker loves the mid-range, and the mid-range loves him back. While that mutual affinity won't lead to the kinds of overall efficiency numbers many of the players on this list can claim, it doesn't change the fact that the Phoenix Suns guard is lights-out inside the arc.

Over the last seven years, Booker has ranked no lower than the 91st percentile in mid-range attempt frequency for his position. In four separate seasons, he's attempted at least half of his shots from that area of the floor. Over that same seven-year span, he's made at least half of his mid-range shots four times. His worst mid-range accuracy mark since 2018-19 was 46.0 percent, still good for the 88th percentile among wings.

Analytically, these aren't great shots for most players. They work for Booker, though, and he deserves credit for knocking down the kinds of difficult self-created pull-ups most others have abandoned.

26. Bobby Portis, Miami Heat

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Career Stats: 47.9 FG%, 39.3 3P%, 53.8 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.8 FG%, 45.6 3P%, 57.8 eFG%

Nobody was paying attention to the Milwaukee Bucks last year—at least not to what they were doing on the court—which is probably why it'll shock many of you to learn that Bobby Portis drained damn near 46.0 percent of his threes in 2025-26.

That hit rate wasn't even a career peak. Portis knocked down 47.1 percent of his long-range tries back in 2020-21.

It's hard to decide which stat is more impressive from Portis' overlooked campaign last year—his 44.0 percent clip from above the break, or his 47.6 percent mark on pull-up threes.

Portis isn't much of a defender, and he's not going to do a whole lot of passing. But you're making a mistake if you exclude him from the conversation about the league's most reliable jump-shooters.

25. Cade Cunningham, Detroit Pistons

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Career Stats: 44.9 FG%, 34.0 3P%, 50.1 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.1 FG%, 34.2 3P%, 51.3 eFG%

Two factors help Cade Cunningham make this list in spite of basic shooting percentages that say he doesn't belong.

The first is that the Detroit Pistons' MVP candidate has virtually no playmaking help alongside him and has to create his own looks against defenses designed specifically to make him take tough shots.

For his career, Cunningham has only been assisted on 24.9 percent of his twos and 61.3 percent of his threes. When you have to work so hard to generate scoring opportunities, efficiency is going to suffer. That he's managed the modest figures above in those circumstances speaks to his remarkable self-sufficiency.

The second factor: We know Cunningham's stroke is legit. He's at 84.0 percent from the foul line for his career and drained 39.0 percent of his treys when he fired without dribbling in 2024-25.

24. Austin Reaves, Los Angeles Lakers

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Career Stats: 48.3 FG%, 36.8 3P%, 56.9 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 49.0 FG%, 36.0 3P%, 56.7 eFG%

Austin Reaves earned his four-year, $180 million extension in July largely because he proved last season he could run an offense as a first option. No one should forget that the undrafted guard originally carved out a niche with the Lakers by shooting 39.8 percent from deep way back in his second season.

Last year's 46.2 percent hit rate on wide-open threes suggests Reaves hasn't lost any of his reliability at a standstill. It's just that he's advanced to the point where he rarely gets those clean looks anymore.

A healthy Luka Dončić could help Reaves tap back into his skills as a spot-up threat.

23. Cam Johnson, Denver Nuggets

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Career Stats: 45.7 FG%, 39.6 3P%, 57.5 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.0 FG%, 43.0 3P%, 59.6 eFG%

Despite a slow start in his first year with the Nuggets, Cam Johnson wound up producing one of the best shooting seasons in the league last year.

Among those with enough attempts to qualify for the three-point percentage leaderboard in 2025-26, Johnson was one of just five players to average at least 2.0 made threes per game while shooting over 43.0 percent. His 53.9 two-point field-goal percentage was the highest within that quintet.

Life for dependent scorers is very good alongside Nikola Jokić and his unmatched ability to deliver the ball directly to the shooting pocket. Johnson posted an elite 63.9 effective field-goal percentage on spot-ups last season.

22. Lauri Markkanen, Utah Jazz

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Career Stats: 45.8 FG%, 37.0 3P%, 54.7 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 47.7 FG%, 35.5 3P%, 54.8 eFG%

Karl-Anthony Towns had better not get comfortable being regarded as the best big-man shooter in the game. If Lauri Markkanen finally starts piling up some volume on a Utah Jazz team that is actually trying to win, he has a great chance to steal that moniker.

Quietly, Markkanen enters this season with 27 more career threes than KAT in 228 fewer games.

Because Markkanen is so much more versatile as a shooter—uniquely capable at his size of running off screens and working in handoff actions—he should continue to outpace Towns in the volume department. Unlike KAT, who mostly depends on spot-ups and pick-and-pops, Markkanen has the mobility that allows him to be featured as a long-range weapon in a variety of ways.

If the more competitive environment in Utah brings out the best of Markkanen, turning him into the guy with three seasons of at least 39.1 percent shooting from deep rather than the guy who hovered around 35.0 percent the last two years, this ranking will be way too low.

21. Karl-Anthony Towns, New York Knicks

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Career Stats: 52.2 FG%, 39.7 3P%, 57.5 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 50.1 FG%, 36.8 3P%, 55.6 eFG%

Karl-Anthony Towns has more seasons shooting at least 40.0 percent from beyond the arc than any other 7-footer (minimum 35 games played per season), which goes a long way toward solidifying him as the best big-man shooter of all time.

Detractors might point to KAT's relatively low volume from deep, but he's still a pretty good bet to beat Dirk Nowitzki's current record of 1,982 triples for a 7-footer. Towns is about two-thirds of the way there and has played fewer than half of Nowitzki's career 1,522 games.

Prior to stretching his game out beyond the arc, Towns was an elite mid-range shooter. In his first four seasons, he hit between 45.0 and 48.0 percent of his two-point jumpers. As five-out spacing became more of a cheat code, KAT mostly exchanged those looks for threes and driving layups.

It's still nice to know he can do damage around the elbows if he needs to.

20. Michael Porter Jr., Brooklyn Nets

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Career Stats: 49.3 FG%, 39.8 3P%, 59.1 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.3 FG%, 36.3 3P%, 55.5 eFG%

Michael Porter Jr. isn't any worse of a shooter today than he was during his first few seasons, but he's a good case study for what happens when a player has to go from specialist to top option.

In his early days with the Denver Nuggets, MPJ had the good fortune of playing with Nikola Jokić. It's no wonder he became an elite catch-and-shoot weapon, hitting at least 39.5 percent of his threes in every healthy season with the Nuggets. He peaked at a ridiculous 44.5 percent in 2020-21.

Upon joining the Brooklyn Nets, Porter had to do a lot more self-creation. He excelled, averaging 24.2 points per game, but saw his efficiency slip in the process.

Perhaps the best indicator of MPJ's incredible shooting talent: No one attempted more tightly contested threes in 2025-26, and Porter hit those shots at an absurd 41.2 percent clip.

19. Desmond Bane, Orlando Magic

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Career Stats: 47.5 FG%, 40.7 3P%, 56.3 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.4 FG%, 39.1 3P%, 55.3 eFG%

Desmond Bane's career got off to a historic shooting start. Only he and Duncan Robinson have ever hit over 500 threes in their first three seasons at a clip of at least 42.0 percent.

It's not as if Bane dropped off after such a strong beginning, either. He's been good for at least a 38.1 percent knockdown rate in each of the last three years and has figured out ways to compensate for his short wingspan. Few shots fall as reliably as Bane's side-step three-pointer.

Because he's such a dangerous catch-and-shoot threat, opponents recklessly sprint at Bane if he receives a pass in space. Rather than take on a rangy wing by trying to shoot over the top, Bane has perfected the art of faking, calmly moving laterally and drilling the open look his patience created.

18. Kawhi Leonard, Toronto Raptors

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Career Stats: 49.9 FG%, 39.1 3P%, 55.6 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 50.5 FG%, 38.7 3P%, 57.3 eFG%

Just imagine how much higher Kawhi Leonard would rank if somebody had introduced him to the three-point shot a little earlier in his career.

Last season was the first time Leonard had ever attempted at least 7.0 threes per 36 minutes, and the high-volume style from long range agreed with him. At 34, he set a new personal best in true shooting percentage and reached a new career high at 27.9 points per game.

Leonard's jumper lasers into the basket, defying every coach who ever preached to shooters about a high-arcing ball flight. You wouldn't teach anyone to fire away with the trajectory Leonard prefers, but the results are impossible to deny.

Kevin Durant and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander were the only players with higher field-goal percentages on pull-up shots (minimum 600 attempts) last season.

17. Tyrese Haliburton, Indiana Pacers

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Career Stats: 47.7 FG%, 39.2 3P%, 57.4 eFG%

2024-25 Stats: 47.3 FG%, 38.8 3P%, 58.2 eFG%

Increased volume during his breakout with the Indiana Pacers knocked Tyrese Haliburton's long-range accuracy mark below 40.0 percent for the first time in 2023-24. Nobody is complaining, as Hali's increased willingness to fire off the dribble was integral to the offensive explosion that ultimately got Indy to the 2025 Finals.

An absolute craftsman as a passer, Haliburton doesn't get enough credit for the breadth of jumpers he's able to create inside the arc. During his last two healthy seasons with the Pacers, Haliburton rated in the 98th percentile on mid-rangers for his position.

Fans of most opposing teams will tell you that figure feels low. In the biggest moments, Hali's step-back jumper going right seems to fall 100 percent of the time.

16. Darius Garland, LA Clippers

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Career Stats: 45.4 FG%, 38.9 3P%, 53.2 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.0 FG%, 39.6 3P%, 55.1 eFG%

Throw out his rookie season, which featured a relatively solid 35.5 percent mark from three, and Darius Garland has been good for at least 37.1 percent from deep on good volume in every year of his career.

If last season's post-deadline cameo with the LA Clippers is any indication, he's only just now approaching his peak as a shooter. In 19 games with his new team, Garland nailed 43.8 percent of his treys on what would have been a career-high 7.6 attempts per game.

Though you might think Garland's lack of size would make it tougher for him to hit jumpers inside the arc, he's been a reliable scorer on mid-rangers and has been especially accurate on those tricky short pull-ups and runners. In each of the last two seasons, he's hit over 50.0 percent of his short mid-rangers.

15. Tyrese Maxey, Philadelphia 76ers

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Career Stats: 46.1 FG%, 37.7 3P%, 53.4 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.2 FG%, 36.7 3P%, 53.6 eFG%

Tyrese Maxey's role over the last couple of years has knocked his efficiency down, perhaps to the point that some will take issue with his inclusion here. Just keep in mind that he shot 42.7 percent and 43.4 percent from deep in 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively, which was the last time he wasn't tasked with playing ridiculous minutes and running the show for Philadelphia.

Back in those days, roughly 70.0 percent of Maxey's threes came via assists. That number has been closer to 55.0 percent over the last two seasons. This year's Sixers have a broader array of threats and should help get Maxey back to his best self from the perimeter.

If we were rating shooters strictly on the strength of what they can do when going downhill at full speed, Maxey would certainly climb the rankings. Nobody is better at softly dropping floaters at a dead run, often from as far out as 10-15 feet.

14. Duncan Robinson, Detroit Pistons

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Career Stats: 43.7 FG%, 39.9 3P%, 59.7 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 45.6 FG%, 41.0 3P%, 61.3 eFG%

Duncan Robinson's 2019-20 season was a revelation, as the undrafted 25-year-old established himself as one of the league's preeminent movement shooters.

He canned 44.6 percent of his treys for the Miami Heat that year, many of which were about as difficult as catch-and-shoot attempts get. Robinson isn't much of a self-starter with the ball, but his ability to sprint around screens, rise and fire sets him apart from all but a handful of gunners around the NBA.

If anything, his 39.9 percent career mark from beyond the stripe undersells Robinson's true shooting ability. The types of triples he has subsisted on are just harder than your run-of-the-mill corner looks many other specialists settle for.

As an added bonus, Robinson is particularly adept at the above-the-break threes many defenses are more willing to concede. He hit 42.0 percent of those looks last season, good for the 94th percentile among wings.

13. Donovan Mitchell, Cleveland Cavaliers

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Career Stats: 45.3 FG%, 36.6 3P%, 53.0 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.3 FG%, 36.4 3P%, 56.3 eFG%

Donovan Mitchell and Stephen Curry are the only players to average at least 3.0 made three-pointers per game in each of the last six seasons. While Mitchell doesn't come close to Curry in terms of accuracy, his volume of attempts on slightly better than league-average percentages is more than enough to command maximum defensive attention.

In addition to his deep shooting, Mitchell has developed into a much more dangerous mid-range shot-maker during the last few seasons. In 2025-26, his 52.0 percent conversion rate on all mid-range jumpers ranked in the 95th percentile among combo guards.

If aesthetics count for anything here, they certainly help Mitchell's case. He has always had remarkably smooth lift on his jumpers and shoots what close observers of shot mechanics would call an "easy ball." With great power from his lower half, Mitchell can fire it from extremely deep, seemingly without any effort at all.

12. Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks

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Career Stats: 47.4 FG%, 39.4 3P%, 54.0 eFG%

2024-25 Stats: 47.3 FG%, 40.1 3P%, 54.9 eFG%

It'd be nice if we could compliment Kyrie Irving for his shooting consistency over a 14-year career, but it's not technically accurate to say he's sustained his accuracy from all over the floor.

That's because he keeps getting better.

Believe it or not, Irving's effective field-goal percentage was higher during his two years in Boston than it was in his first six seasons with the Cavs. It climbed again during Irving's four-year tour with Brooklyn before ticking up another few points in 128 games (so far) in Dallas.

Incredible ball-handling frees up Irving to get to two-point jumpers and floaters whenever he wants, and opponents have no choice but to stay close to him because of his consistent ability to drain 40.0 percent of his threes.

Though it's not a major component of this list, Irving should get a few bonus points for the sheer variety of ways he's able to shoot the ball. Nobody else on this list has won a game on a 15-foot running hook with his off hand.

11. Luka Dončić, Los Angeles Lakers

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Career Stats: 46.9 FG%, 35.2 3P%, 54.4 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 47.6 FG%, 36.6 3P%, 56.3 eFG%

Luka Dončić won't win many empty-gym shooting contests, but his step-back three is among the most respected in the league. By leveraging the threat of that shot to pull defenders out into space, Dončić gets access to scoring chances everywhere on the floor.

Last season, Dončić's 7.5 pull-up three-point attempts per game led the NBA, and he shot 36.3 percent on them.

When opponents sell out to stop him from getting to his pet shots from beyond the arc, Dončić feasts in the lane. He's rated above the 86th percentile at his position on short mid-range accuracy in each of the last six seasons. Quietly, he's also deadly on long mid-rangers, where he's generally been good for about a 50.0 percent hit rate.

With an incredibly strong base, an ability to lean back and defend his release with an outstretched right leg, and no shortage of confidence, Dončić can knock down jumpers most players can't even create in the first place.

10. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder

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Career Stats: 50.8 FG%, 36.0 3P%, 54.8 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 55.3 FG%, 38.6 3P%, 59.7 eFG%

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander isn't the kind of standstill marksman you might expect on a list like this, but he's proof that great shooters can take many forms. Among the two-time MVP's most impressive talents: his unmatched ability to generate and make jumpers in isolation.

SGA posted a 59.6 effective field-goal percentage on shots attempted after taking at least seven dribbles in 2025-26, the most efficient rate of anyone who tried at least 200 such shots. Many of those were the tough, fading twos you picture when thinking of Gilgeous-Alexander, but the two-time MVP also made a scorching 44.6 percent of the 101 threes he took after dribbling at least seven times.

Among point guards, SGA has rated in at least the 93rd percentile in mid-range accuracy for three straight years. Almost nobody is better on short bankers and step-throughs, and it feels unfair that he's also posted three-point hit rates in the high 30s across each of the last two years.

9. Luke Kennard, Phoenix Suns

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Career Stats: 46.6 FG%, 44.2 3P%, 59.5 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 53.3 FG%, 47.8 3P%, 66.5 eFG%

The rankings catch Luke Kennard at a good time, fresh off a season in which he shot a league-leading 47.8 percent from deep while splitting time between the Los Angeles Lakers and Atlanta Hawks.

Leaving Kennard uncovered is a cardinal sin for a defense. On the rare occasions he was given at least 10 feet of space in 2025-26, he drilled a ridiculous 51.9 percent of his three-point tries. That was the highest hit rate among all players who attempted as many as Kennard's 131 "wide open" threes.

Don't mistake the focus on last season as a dismissal of Kennard's much larger body of work. His worst mark for a full season is 39.4 percent, he's led the league in accuracy three times and he's been at 44.0 percent or better in five separate seasons.

8. Jamal Murray, Denver Nuggets

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Career Stats: 45.9 FG%, 39.0 3P%, 53.5 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.3 FG%, 43.5 3P%, 57.3 eFG%

Only nine active players own career three-point accuracy marks of at least 39.0 percent on over 3,500 attempts, and Jamal Murray is one of them. If you filter out the specialists who've mostly subsisted on spoon-fed setups (Duncan Robinson, Buddy Hield, Klay Thompson), the field shrinks to a point where Murray appears to be one of the half-dozen best three-point gunners of his generation.

Obviously, we need to account for the fact that Murray has spent his entire career benefittng from Nikola Jokić's assists. But Murray generates a ton of pull-up mid-rangers as a pick-and-roll ball-handler.

Over 60.0 percent of the two-point makes in his career have come without the benefit of a teammate assist, which shows just how much he's still creating on his own.

Entering his 10th season, Murray also isn't slowing down. He made his first All-Star and All-NBA teams last year while setting new career highs in three-pointers made (245) and true shooting percentage (62.2 percent).

7. Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets

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Career Stats: 56.1 FG%, 36.2 3P%, 59.8 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 56.9 FG%, 38.0 3P%, 61.8 eFG%

This is a pretty good outcome for a player who would probably prefer not to shoot the ball at all.

Nikola Jokić's singular, generational skill as a passer defines his career and will always be the ability for which he's remembered. That makes it easy to forget that he's among the most creative and effective shooters of the basketball anyone's ever seen.

Few bigs have ever had softer touch in the short mid-range area than Jokić, whose feathery release makes him dangerous everywhere inside the arc. For some context, he's shooting 58.4 percent from 3-10 feet, 51.3 percent from 10-16 feet and 46.7 percent from 16 feet out to the three-point line for his career.

Kevin Durant is at 48.3 percent, 48.6 percent and 46.0 percent for his career, respectively.

That the 7-footer's three-point accuracy rates as an afterthought speaks to just how dangerous Jokić's shooting ability all over the floor truly is.

6. Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves

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Career Stats: 45.3 FG%, 36.9 3P%, 53.1 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 48.9 FG%, 39.9 3P%, 57.2 eFG%

Only two players—Buddy Hield and Klay Thompson—have made more total threes in the first six years of their careers than Anthony Edwards, whose degree of difficulty tends to be higher than that of his mostly catch-and-shoot peers.

The volume is doing a lot of work for Edwards' case here, as he's only at 36.9 percent from deep for his career and didn't establish himself as a better-than-average mid-range marksman until last season, when he knocked down 45.0 percent of those looks.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Edwards added in-between accuracy to his game; year-over-year improvement has defined his career. So if his overall efficiency marks seem underwhelming, and if the volume doesn't persuade you he belongs quite this high, understand that the current version of Edwards is better than every previous one and unquestionably one of the top pure shooters in the sport.

Case in point: Last season, he was one of just three players to shoot at least 39.0 percent from deep while averaging more than 8.0 long-range attempts per game.

5. Damian Lillard, Portland Trail Blazers

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Career Stats: 43.9 FG%, 37.1 3P%, 52.3 eFG%

2024-25 Stats: 44.8 FG%, 37.6 3P%, 54.7 eFG%

Fifth on the all-time list in made threes, Damian Lillard has long been regarded as the closest thing to Steph Curry in one critical sense: He's the only guy in the league who is remotely as dangerous off the dribble from the moment he crosses the half-court line.

Lillard's pull-up prowess extends defenses and has also consistently produced odds-defying game-winners on the biggest stages.

Though he doesn't do a fraction of the off-ball work Curry does, Lillard is still exceptionally challenging to defend.

Lest there be any concern about his stroke deteriorating as a result of a torn Achilles, Lillard showed up to the 2026 All-Star Game after not playing for months and won the Three-Point Contest. That honor, collected during a season in which he didn't suit up for a single game, tied him with Larry Bird and Craig Hodges as the only three-time winners in the event's history.

4. Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks

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Career Stats: 48.5 FG%, 38.5 3P%, 54.5 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.7 FG%, 36.9 3P%, 53.3 eFG%

Jalen Brunson is the best illustration of how great shooting is about so much more than a flick of the wrist.

The reigning Finals MVP lands here not just because the ball always comes off his fingertips with just the right amount of spin and touch, but also because he utilizes his full body to generate looks.

Brunson's lack of size forced him to become a master of footwork, balance, timing and creativity. He uses all of it to fake, pivot and nudge his way into good angles from everywhere on the floor. Though he doesn't get to the rim much and consistently ranks well below the positional average in three-point attempt frequency, Brunson makes up for it by dominating the entire mid-range area.

Due largely to his skill at keeping defenders off balance, Brunson is also an excellent foul-drawer. That has helped him keep his true shooting percentage above the league average in each of the last six years, which probably gives a better sense of his skill level than his underwhelming effective field-goal percentage, which doesn't count free throws.

3. Kon Knueppel, Charlotte Hornets

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Career Stats: 47.5 FG%, 42.5 3P%, 60.1 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 47.5 FG%, 42.5 3P%, 60.1 eFG%

It wasn't quite enough to win him Rookie of the Year over former Duke teammate Cooper Flagg, but Kon Knueppel can still lay claim to the greatest shooting season ever produced by a first-year player.

In 81 games last season, Knueppel canned 273 treys, obliterating Keegan Murray's previous record of 203. At 42.5 percent, Knueppel was also more accurate than every previous rookie with at least 150 makes...other than Curry, who shot 43.7 percent en route to 166 makes back in 2009-10.

At 51.0 percent from the corners, Knueppel proved to be particularly dangerous on the catch. LaMelo Ball's exit could cut down the share of shots Knueppel takes via teammate assist, but offseason work on off-the-dribble shooting could allow for a second season just as good as his first.

Knueppel has a long way to go in terms of his all-time ranking among NBA shooters, but nobody has ever gotten off to a better start.

2. Kevin Durant, Houston Rockets

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Career Stats: 50.3 FG%, 39.2 3P%, 55.6 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 52.0 FG%, 41.3 3P%, 58.8 eFG%

Kevin Durant has hit at least 40.0 percent from long range in four of the last five seasons, an indicator that he has a legitimate superpower as a three-point shooter.

That's pretty impressive considering he doesn't even really like to fire away from deep. KD's 2.4 made triples per game last season ranked outside the top 50, and he's never once attempted more than 32.0 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.

Durant's greatest shooting prowess comes in the disfavored mid-range area, where his proficiency makes him one of very few players for whom a pull-up two is still a valuable scoring option. He's hit at least 50.0 percent of his mid-range attempts in each of the last eight seasons, which is basically unheard of at his level of volume.

Shifty shoulders, a high release and a feathery touch make KD perhaps the league's best bailout option on offense. He can generate a good perimeter look against any defender at any time.

1. Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors

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Career Stats: 47.1 FG%, 42.2 3P%, 58.2 eFG%

2025-26 Stats: 46.8 FG%, 39.3 3P%, 58.7 eFG%

Last year was a substandard season for Stephen Curry, whose 4.4 made threes per game would have led the league by a comfortable margin had he qualified. Hopefully that helps frame the extent to which Curry, the undisputed greatest shooter of all time, continues to distance himself from all of his peers.

No one has ever drawn more attention away from the ball than Steph. Every opponent's game plan centers on denying him touches in space, which makes his volume and accuracy all the more impressive. It's not just that Curry is the all-time leader in made triples by a mile, or that he's piled up over 4,000 makes at a 42.2 percent clip. It's that he's done so while every opponent burned maximum calories trying to stop him.

It's impossible to overstate how hard Curry has to work to get his looks, and that sets him apart from many players on this list who've sustained elite efficiency numbers on a much higher share of uncontested shots.

When it comes to shooting, there's Curry, a chasm wider than the Grand Canyon, and everyone else.