Lee Geun-hwi (Busan KCC), who ranks first in 3-point shooting percentage in all professional basketball this season, also won the All-Star 3-point shooting contest, proving that he is the best in this category.
Geun-Hwi Lee took first place with 27 points in the finals of the 2023-24 CheongKwanJang Professional Basketball All-Star Game 3-Point Shooting Contest held at Sono Arena in Goyang on the 14th.
Geun-Hwi Lee showed off his outstanding skills in the 3-point shooting contest in which 13 players participated. After taking first place overall with 25 points in the preliminaries, he secured the championship by scoring the highest score of 27 points in the finals.
Geun-Hwi Lee comfortably beat Andrew Nicholson (Korea Gas Corporation), Didrick Lawson (DB), and Jae-Hyeon Oh (SK), who also advanced to the finals. Nicholson only scored 21 points, Jaehyun Oh 14 points, and Lawson 12 points in the final.
Geun-Hwi Lee, who joined KCC as the 8th pick in the first round of the 2020 draft, is ranked first in the league with a 50.8% 3-point shooting success rate this season.
After winning the championship, Geun-Hwi Lee said, “This is the first trophy in my life. “He is very happy,” he said. “I have been analyzing and practicing shooting a lot by watching American professional basketball (NBA) players who are doing well. “He practiced a lot even before the contest,” he said. Regarding how he will spend the 2 million won he received as the winning prize, he said, “There are many people around me who will buy me something delicious, so I don’t think the prize money will be left to me,” and he smiled brightly.
In the dunk contest, Suwon KT Paris Bass came out on top. Bath scored only 44 points in the preliminaries. Following Justin Gutang (LG, 50 points), Kim Geon-woo (SK, 48 points), Duvan Maxwell (KOGAS, 47 points), and Lee Doo-won (KT, 46 points), he tied with Cho Jun-hee (Samsung). In the end, after a 5th place match, they barely made it to the finals.
But in the finals, he became a completely different player. He succeeded in a series of between leg dunks, where he took the ball out between his legs and then stuck the ball into the rim. After overwhelming his competitors by receiving a perfect score of 50 in the second period, he won the prize money of 2 million won.
Gutang showed off his amazing jumping ability, surpassing his four fellow players sitting side by side on chairs under the goal, but he had to be satisfied with second place in the finals, receiving 49 points both times. In addition, in the finals, Maxwell scored 46 points, Kim Geon-woo scored 43 points, and Lee Doo-won scored 42 points.
Geun-Hwi Lee took first place with 27 points in the finals of the 2023-24 CheongKwanJang Professional Basketball All-Star Game 3-Point Shooting Contest held at Sono Arena in Goyang on the 14th.
Geun-Hwi Lee showed off his outstanding skills in the 3-point shooting contest in which 13 players participated. After taking first place overall with 25 points in the preliminaries, he secured the championship by scoring the highest score of 27 points in the finals.
Geun-Hwi Lee comfortably beat Andrew Nicholson (Korea Gas Corporation), Didrick Lawson (DB), and Jae-Hyeon Oh (SK), who also advanced to the finals. Nicholson only scored 21 points, Jaehyun Oh 14 points, and Lawson 12 points in the final.
Geun-Hwi Lee, who joined KCC as the 8th pick in the first round of the 2020 draft, is ranked first in the league with a 50.8% 3-point shooting success rate this season.
After winning the championship, Geun-Hwi Lee said, “This is the first trophy in my life. “He is very happy,” he said. “I have been analyzing and practicing shooting a lot by watching American professional basketball (NBA) players who are doing well. “He practiced a lot even before the contest,” he said. Regarding how he will spend the 2 million won he received as the winning prize, he said, “There are many people around me who will buy me something delicious, so I don’t think the prize money will be left to me,” and he smiled brightly.
In the dunk contest, Suwon KT Paris Bass came out on top. Bath scored only 44 points in the preliminaries. Following Justin Gutang (LG, 50 points), Kim Geon-woo (SK, 48 points), Duvan Maxwell (KOGAS, 47 points), and Lee Doo-won (KT, 46 points), he tied with Cho Jun-hee (Samsung). In the end, after a 5th place match, they barely made it to the finals.
But in the finals, he became a completely different player. He succeeded in a series of between leg dunks, where he took the ball out between his legs and then stuck the ball into the rim. After overwhelming his competitors by receiving a perfect score of 50 in the second period, he won the prize money of 2 million won.
Gutang showed off his amazing jumping ability, surpassing his four fellow players sitting side by side on chairs under the goal, but he had to be satisfied with second place in the finals, receiving 49 points both times. In addition, in the finals, Maxwell scored 46 points, Kim Geon-woo scored 43 points, and Lee Doo-won scored 42 points.
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