Guest Post by Abacus Reveals
Skip Bayless of ESPN’s First Take was recently advocating for the introduction of a four-point field goal into the NBA game … stripe another line onto the court and put a little more elasticity in your Stretch-Fours. It took my old-school sensibilities quite a while to come to grips with the “three-ball,” so I’m not yet ready for another jolt to my system.
In actuality – and, fittingly enough, to be found in a re-worked version of the American Basketball Association – the “four pointer” already exists in the game, in two forms.