Glen Rice made quite a living by nailing three-pointers during his time. When asked how he thinks he would fare in today’s game, “G Money” said he would’ve been a walking bucket, averaging about 30 points per outing.
Easy 30 for G Money
Most NBA stars from the past eras are confident about how they would’ve stood out with ease in today’s game. Rice, the 1995 NBA three-point shootout king, was no different.
According to Rice, if he drained half a dozen treys back then, and given how shooters are licensed to pull up from beyond the arc these days, he’d probably drop 30 a night, firing from all cylinders without breaking a sweat.
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“If you like eating a lot you’ll get full on me!,” Rice told NBA.com in 2019 via Sporting News. “… When I was playing, if we shot six 3-pointers as an individual [per] game, we thought we were shooting too many threes. The opportunity to get out there and maybe shoot 15 3-pointers a game? I would really hurt myself if I wasn’t averaging 30 points per game. It would really be a great time.”
G Money likes watching players make it rain from downtown
In retrospect, NBA teams weren’t really able to maximize the three-point territory until probably the 2010s. Rice acknowledges the fact that it has become a staple for every NBA team to shoot a lot of three-pointers each game and he admittedly likes it.
For “G Money,” noticing that even the bigs add three-point shooting into their arsenal is amazing and more importantly, it has made the game even better.
“I like it. I’m a 3-point shooter, so obviously I like to see guys shoot the three,” Rice confessed. “It’s amazing to me that you have so many big guys who are stepping out there and [are] able to shoot the 3-pointer, and do it well. It helps the game, it definitely widens the floor. It gives guys who can shoot and dribble an opportunity to be that much more explosive and better offensively – it’s doing the game a real good justice.”
This is not the first time a 90s NBA star shared the same sentiment about the evolution of the game, especially in terms of shooting threes. Indeed, it’s still hard to tell if a three-point gunner from the past such as Rice could really excel in today’s NBA. However, one thing we can all agree is that these old heads would’ve shot a lot of treys without getting called out for it.