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Madeline Potts couldn’t travel further than five kilometers from her home province of Victoria, Australia, for two years due to COVID-19. But the small basketball court behind Potts’ house in Doncaster stayed open, allowing her to practice. It featured an undersized concrete surface that wasn’t wide enough to include the whole 3-point arc.
There, Potts practiced her 3-point shooting for hours on end. She watched videos of Stephen Curry and tried emulating him. According to Potts’ mother, Kristen, Potts’ grandmother, who lived down the street, used to hear the ball bouncing at the park and knew it was Potts.