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How Danny Green is Becoming His Generation's Robert Horry or Derek Fisher
Horry and Fisher contributed to a combined 12 championships as three-point specialists. Is Danny Green becoming their modern-day equivalent?

NBA Stats’ Twitter account tweeted out the details of his amazing three-game run following the Spurs’ 112-77 shellacking of the Thunder in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals.

Green’s resulting effective field goal percentage from the 71.0% from the field and 71.4% from deep is a borderline criminal 95.2% (that’s ridiculously high, if you’re not overly familiar with the stat).

Wow. Just wow.

In the last two seasons alone, Green’s already put up four Playoff performances in which he’s hit at least six three-pointers and shot equal to or better than 60.0% from three-point range (all San Antonio wins). That’s as many as Derek Fisher (three) and Robert Horry (one) have had in their combined 36 seasons of action and 499 playoff games. In fact, Green is now second all-time in such games, trailing only Ray Allen, who has had eight (in three times as many Playoff games played, for what it’s worth).

Over the last three playoff runs, the Spurs are 15-2 when Green hits three or more threes. If he can keep the hot hand scorching, the Spurs current 48.31% championship odds (according to our algorithms) could definitely come to fruition.

In the meantime, Green could cement his role as the current generation’s postseason three-point dream killer. Considering the fact that he’s playing for a team that Horry won two titles with and against a Thunder team that has Fisher playing for it, the torch passing opportunity could very well be there.

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