{"id":591627,"date":"2026-02-09T02:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/591627\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:02:42","slug":"nba-announces-eight-participants-for-three-point-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/591627\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Announces Eight Participants For Three-Point Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has announced the eight-player field for the 2026 three-point contest, which will take place on February 14 at 4:00 pm CT (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2020587691042295920\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of participants:<\/p>\n<p>Lillard\u2019s inclusion in the competition is a surprise, as the nine-time All-Star will miss the entire season after tearing his Achilles tendon last April. The 35-year-old guard is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/history-3-point-contest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-time winner<\/a> of the three-point contest.<\/p>\n<p>Booker is another former three-point contest champion, though he\u2019s only shooting 30.7% from long distance this season, which represents a career low.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 overall pick Knueppel has a chance to become the first rookie to win the event, per the league. The former Duke standout has connected on 42.8% of his outside looks on high volume (7.8 attempts per game).<\/p>\n<p>Portis is the only big man among the eight competitors. He has also been the most accurate three-point shooter in the field this season, converting 45.1% of his 4.3 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>First-time All-Stars Murray (43.2% on 7.5 attempts per game) and Powell (39.3% on 7.2 attempts) are having strong seasons for their respective clubs. Mitchell (37.9% on 9.7 attempts) and Maxey (38.2% on 8.8 attempts) are the highest-volume three-point shooters in the field and are also the top two scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/herroty01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-08_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Herro<\/a>, is currently sidelined because of a rib injury. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/02\/heat-notes-rozier-ware-young-players-powell-herro.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declined an invitation<\/a> to focus on his health over the All-Star break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has announced the eight-player field for the 2026 three-point contest, which will take place on February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,507,125,2292,864,762,968,558,1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-591627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-damian-lillard","11":"tag-devin-booker","12":"tag-donovan-mitchell","13":"tag-jamal-murray","14":"tag-kon-knueppel","15":"tag-norman-powell","16":"tag-tyrese-maxey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116038214822810776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}