On Friday night, Marcus Smart reached another important milestone.
During the team's matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Smart made the 650th 3-point shot of his Celtics career.
The significance of that number? He officially passed C's legend Larry Bird for the fourth-most 3-point shots made in team history.
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Here's a look at the shot that put Smart ahead of Bird.
It's pretty remarkable that Smart has made that many 3-point shots during his career. He doesn't have a reputation as a very good shooter, but he has steadily worked to improve his accuracy from deep. And over the last three seasons, Smart has shot a respectable 35.2 percent from behind the arc.
Now, Smart is trailing just three players on the 3-point makes list: Paul Pierce, Antoine Walker, and Ray Allen.
Rank | Player | 3-pointers made |
1 | Paul Pierce | 1,823 |
2 | Antoine Walker | 937 |
3 | Ray Allen | 798 |
4 | Marcus Smart | 650 |
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At the current clip that Smart is making threes -- he's averaging 1.9 makes per game -- it will take him about 78 games to match Allen.
So it would seem that in about a calendar year or so, we could be talking about Smart moving up on this list once again.