PHOENIX – Four years earlier, when he was a star at the University of Arizona some 120 miles away from the site of the Orlando Magic’s game on Friday, Aaron Gordon would always hear the whispers about his suspect jump shot.
Someday, the ultra-athletic forward promised, he would solidify that missing part of his game and become the complete basketball player some wondered he would ever reach.
Gordon hit Phoenix on Friday with a sterling 57.5 percent accuracy rate from 3-point range – the second-best mark in the NBA. Overall, Gordon shot 55.2 from the floor in his first nine games of this NBA season.