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Do you like long-range bombs, ball racks, and multicolored basketballs? Then you’ll love the field for this year’s Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout (as announced today in a press release from the NBA)!

Without further ado, your shooters, with this season’s three-point percentages in parentheses: Paul Pierce(notes) (.467), Chauncey Billups(notes) (.415), defending champion Daequan Cook(notes) (.300), Stephen Curry(notes) (.429), Danilo Gallinari(notes) (.403), and Channing Frye(notes) (.438).

In the past, the Three-Point Shootout has been one of the few All-Star Weekend events to showcase the league’s role players, but this year looks a little different. Pierce and Billups are there for star power, Curry and Gallinari are promotable youngsters, and Frye is a true role player. (Cook, unfortunately, has had a rough year in Miami and is only included because he won last season.)

Cook is trying to become the seventh player to win multiple titles, joining Mark Price, Jeff Hornacek, Jason Kapono(notes), Peja Stojakovic(notes), Larry Bird, and Craig Hodges.
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