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Every NBA team’s greatest shooter of all time

By Brandon Jefferson

OAKLAND, CA - 1995: Kenny Smith #30 of the Houston Rockets stretches against the Portland Trail Blazers during a game played circa 1995 at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1995 NBAE (Photo by Brad Mangin/NBAE via Getty Images)
OAKLAND, CA - 1995: Kenny Smith #30 of the Houston Rockets stretches against the Portland Trail Blazers during a game played circa 1995 at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1995 NBAE (Photo by Brad Mangin/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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Orlando Magic: Dennis Scott

The Orlando Magic are another franchise that saw a once-in-a-generation talent skip town as a free agent, however, for the purpose of this post that player wasn’t also the team’s greatest shooter of all-time. Dennis Scott takes that mantle for Orlando. “3-D” as he is known, was a 6-foot-8 wing that could catch fire from 3-point range at a moment’s notice.

He played his first seven seasons with the Magic and along with Shaq, Penny Hardaway, Horace Grant and Nick Anderson helped lead the team to the NBA Finals in 1995. Much like the 2012 Thunder team that reached the Finals many people believed that that core group would bring the Magic to many more championship series in the future. Time showed that we were wrong both times.

For his part, Scott was everything he was billed as during his time in Orlando. In seven years Scott connected on 40.3 percent of his 3-pointers. Once Shaq left and Hardaway started dealing with injuries, Scott became expendable for the front office and after the 1997 season he was dealt away to the Mavericks. However, he bounced around to four other teams (Suns, Knicks, Timberwolves and Grizzlies) in the final three years of his career.

Apparently, being a lights-out shooter is one of the qualifications to becoming an NBA analysts as Scott also joined the Turner team in his retirement. The chemistry between Scott and Shaq is evident even now, sadly we didn’t get to see it on the floor again after losing to the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals to end their 1995-96 season.

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