With his first goal three points early in the Bucks’ home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, All-Star Khris Middleton made franchise history.
He overtook franchise legend and Hall of Famer Ray Allen for the most three points in Bucks regular season history.
Allen, widely regarded as one of the greatest ADCs of all time, scored a total of 1,051 3-pointers in 494 games for the Bucks between 1996 and 2003. He took them out at an average rate of 2.1 per game. with an efficiency of 40.6%.
Middleton, on the other hand, overtook Allen’s feat in his 566th regular game for the Bucks and topped the leaderboard with 1,054 career 3-pointers. The 30-year-old is making 1.9 3-balls per game at a rate of 39.4%.
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2021 is set to be a pretty good year for Middleton with the recent record having only cherry above.
Just days after winning the 2021 championship with the Bucks, Middleton traveled to Tokyo to be part of the US team that won the Olympic gold medal.
“To break a record like this, any franchise record would be incredible,” Middleton said after the game.
Both Allen and Middleton were acquired by the Bucks in transactions.
Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with a fifth overall pick in the 1996 Draft, Allen and Andrew Lang were traded to the Bucks for draft rights to Stephon Marbury’s fourth pick.
Meanwhile, Middleton was acquired by the Bucks in 2013 along with Brandon Knight and Viacheslav Kravtsov from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Brandon Jennings. The Pistons drafted Middleton with a 39th overall pick in the 2012 Draft.
