Jamal Murray is shooting 51% from three on 7.8 attempts and 51% overall, and the only 50-50 season on three a game is Tim Legler’s

Jamal Murray is shooting 50.9% from the field and 51.3% from three through 10 games, and he is taking 7.8 threes a game. He is averaging 26.2 points, the highest scoring average of his career, for a Nuggets team that is 6-4.

Over a full season, those numbers have never gone together. Since the three-point line arrived in 1979-80, only one player has finished a season shooting 50% from the field and 50% from three on at least three attempts a game: Tim Legler, who shot 50.7% and 52.2% on 3.2 attempts for Washington in 1995-96, when the line was shortened. That is from season totals on Basketball-Reference, with a minimum of 40 games.

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The numbers through 10 games

• 87-of-171 from the field (50.9%), 40-of-78 from three (51.3%) and 48-of-57 at the line (84.2%)
• League-wide, teams are shooting 35.2% from three and 45.8% from the field this season
• His true shooting percentage is 66.8%. Of the 14 players averaging 25 points, only Stephen Curry, at 71.9%, is higher, and Curry is expected to miss about a month
• He went 2-of-11 and 0-of-1 from three in the opener at Oklahoma City. Since then he is 85-of-160 (53.1%) and 40-of-77 from three (51.9%)
• He has made 40 of Denver’s 115 threes. The rest of the Nuggets are 75-of-247 (30.4%), which leaves Denver at 35.4% as a team
• Among players taking at least five threes a game, he leads the league in three-point percentage. Next are Meleek Thomas at 48.0% and Grayson Allen at 47.2%

Game by game

Date	Opponent	Result	Points	FG	3P	FT
Oct. 22	at Thunder	L 84-96	6	2-11	0-1	2-4
Oct. 24	vs. Pelicans	W 141-135	42	12-25	8-16	10-13
Oct. 26	vs. Warriors	L 114-134	19	8-13	3-6	0-0
Oct. 28	at Pelicans	W 104-91	23	9-19	5-11	0-0
Oct. 30	at Suns	W 127-120	39	10-18	7-9	12-15
Nov. 2	vs. Trail Blazers	L 110-118	35	10-19	4-9	11-11
Nov. 4	vs. Raptors	W 128-109	14	4-11	2-5	4-4
Nov. 7	vs. Pacers (Mexico City)	W 114-102	16	6-13	2-6	2-2
Nov. 9	at Rockets	L 100-110	38	14-23	5-8	5-5
Nov. 11	at Grizzlies	W 123-118	30	12-19	4-7	2-3
Total	6-4		262	87-171	40-78	48-57

He has made at least half of his threes in five of the 10 games. His 42 against New Orleans came with 8-of-16 from deep, and his 39 at Phoenix with 7-of-9.

The best three-point seasons at volume

Nobody has kept a 50% three-point mark over a season while taking even four a game. The best on seven or more attempts is Curry’s 45.4% on 11.2 a game in 2015-16. Murray’s own 43.5% last season, a career high, ranks ninth on that list.

Season	Player	Team	3PM-3PA	3P%	3PA per game	FG%
2015-16	Stephen Curry	Warriors	402-886	45.4	11.2	50.4
2012-13	Stephen Curry	Warriors	272-600	45.3	7.7	45.1
2024-25	Zach LaVine	Bulls/Kings	239-536	44.6	7.2	51.1
2019-20	Duncan Robinson	Heat	270-606	44.6	8.3	47.0
2014-15	Stephen Curry	Warriors	286-646	44.3	8.1	48.7
2017-18	Klay Thompson	Warriors	229-520	44.0	7.1	48.8
2014-15	Klay Thompson	Warriors	239-545	43.9	7.1	46.3
2018-19	Stephen Curry	Warriors	354-810	43.7	11.7	47.2
2025-26	Jamal Murray	Nuggets	245-563	43.5	7.5	48.3
2026-27 (10 games)	Jamal Murray	Nuggets	40-78	51.3	7.8	50.9

Only Curry in 2015-16 has finished a season above 50% from the field and 45% from three while scoring 25 a game on that many attempts. Dale Ellis did it on 4.1 attempts in 1988-89.

Every 50-50 season since 1979-80

Lower the bar to two threes a game, and five seasons qualify. All five came from role players taking fewer than 3.5 a game.

Season	Player	Team	FG%	3P%	3PA per game
1994-95	Steve Kerr	Bulls	52.7	52.4	2.1
1994-95	Detlef Schrempf	SuperSonics	52.3	51.4	2.2
1995-96	Tim Legler	Bullets	50.7	52.2	3.2
1995-96	Steve Kerr	Bulls	50.6	51.5	2.9
2020-21	Tony Snell	Hawks	51.5	56.9	2.3
2026-27 (10 games)	Jamal Murray	Nuggets	50.9	51.3	7.8

What to watch

The Nuggets play at New Orleans on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET (2 a.m. Sunday Cairo time). Murray has made 13 of 27 threes in two games against the Pelicans this season. Leaders in every category are on the WhyNBA stats pages.