Luka Dončić is making 5.5 threes a game, above Stephen Curry’s 5.35 record, but every 50-three start in the best shooting seasons has cooled

Luka Dončić went 3 of 11 from three in Monday’s 124-114 win in Atlanta, his quietest shooting night since the second game of the season. He is still making 5.5 threes a game, 55 in 10 appearances, the most in the NBA and more than anyone has averaged over a full season.

The single-season record is Stephen Curry’s 5.35 in 2020-21. Dončić is also taking 13.5 threes a game, above James Harden’s record of 13.18 from 2018-19. The Lakers are 10-2, the first team in the league to reach 10 wins, and have won six straight.

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The numbers that stand out

• Dončić has made 55 of 135 threes, 40.7%. He has made at least five in eight of his 10 games and at least eight twice
• His previous best season was 4.06 threes a game in 2023-24, when he made 43 in his first 10 games
• Four players are averaging at least four made threes: Dončić (5.5), Curry (4.67), Duncan Robinson (4.2) and Jamal Murray (4.0). No completed season on Basketball-Reference’s qualified list has had more than two
• Every season on that list at 4.0 or more came from 2015-16 on. There are 15 of them, and Curry owns seven
• Five of those 15 seasons started with 50 or more threes in the first 10 games. All five finished lower, between 4.05 and 5.13 a game
• The 5.35 record season started slowly. Curry made 42 threes in his first 10 games of 2020-21

How the best three-point seasons started

The table lists every qualified season with at least four made threes a game, alongside the threes made in that player’s first 10 games. Dončić’s 55 would rank third, behind two Curry starts.

Player	Season	Threes, first 10 games	Final threes a game
Stephen Curry	2018-19	59	5.13
Stephen Curry	2023-24	57	4.82
Luka Dončić	2026-27	55	5.50 (so far)
Anthony Edwards	2024-25	54	4.05
Stephen Curry	2015-16	52	5.09
Stephen Curry	2021-22	52	4.45
Stephen Curry	2016-17	48	4.10
Luka Dončić	2023-24	43	4.06
Stephen Curry	2020-21	42	5.35
James Harden	2019-20	42	4.40
Stephen Curry	2024-25	41	4.44
James Harden	2018-19	40	4.85
Damian Lillard	2019-20	40	4.09
Damian Lillard	2020-21	37	4.10
Damian Lillard	2022-23	36	4.21
Klay Thompson	2022-23	30	4.36

Starts and finishes do not line up neatly. Curry’s 59 in 2018-19 included an 11-three night against Washington, and he finished at 5.13. Edwards opened 2024-25 with 54 and ended at 4.05. Harden made 40 threes in his first 10 games of 2018-19 and then averaged 4.97 the rest of the way, and Thompson went from 30 in his first 10 to 4.36 for the season.

Volume is the difference this time. Dončić is taking more threes per game than any qualified season on record, so he can keep a record pace while shooting 40.7%, a rate several of Curry’s best seasons topped. Curry made 45.4% of his threes in 2015-16 and 42.1% in his record 2020-21 season.

Game by game

Date	Opponent	Threes	Points
Oct. 21	Warriors	5 of 12	28
Oct. 23	Clippers	2 of 8	23
Oct. 25	at Jazz	8 of 18	52
Oct. 27	Trail Blazers	6 of 15	41
Oct. 30	at Warriors	6 of 16	37
Nov. 1	Raptors	8 of 12	45
Nov. 2	Heat	6 of 15	42
Nov. 4	at Kings	6 of 13	40
Nov. 6	Trail Blazers	5 of 15	53
Nov. 9	at Hawks	3 of 11	32

From Oct. 25 through Nov. 6, Dončić had at least 35 points, five rebounds, five assists and five threes in seven straight games. The league noted that the run passed a five-game streak by Damian Lillard in 2020 as the longest of its kind. It ended in Atlanta, where he still had 32 points, eight rebounds, 10 assists and five steals.

What to watch

The Lakers visit the 1-10 Bucks on Wednesday night. Curry and the Warriors are at Houston the same night, and Murray’s Nuggets play in Memphis. League leaders for every category are on the WhyNBA stats pages.