The 30-Foot Basketball Shot — Who Ya Got?

Leave it to the Harlem Globetrotters. Those innovative roundball wizards, who helped popularize the slam dunk, alley-oop, and behind-the-back pass, debuted a four-point line last year — 30 feet out from the tin — which rewards mad bombers jacking from a distance six-plus feet beyond the top of the NBA’s three-point line. 

And where the Globetrotters have gone, the NBA might follow — at least if some league officials, on-the-record players, and hoop pundits, including former ESPN-er Bill Simmons, author of The Book of Basketball, have their way.

Yep, imagine a future where the Splash Brothers — Golden State’s Steph Curry and Klay Thompson — are raining four-pointers instead of threes, allowing their team to crush... Read More