The
Three-Point Contest (officially named the
Foot Locker Three-Point Contest and previously named the
Three-Point Shootout) is a
National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual
All-Star Game as part of the
All-Star Weekend. In this contest, participants attempt to make as many
three-point field goals as possible from five positions behind the
three-point arc in one minute. Players begin shooting from one corner of the court, and move from station to station along the three point arc until they reach the other corner. At each shooting station is a rack with five basketballs. Out of the five balls, four are worth one point (the standard orange
Spalding game balls) and the fifth one (a red/white/blue ABA-style ball; often nicknamed the "money ball") is worth two points. The goal of this contest is to score as many points as possible within one minute. A perfect score used to be 30 points. In the
2014 contest, a rack consisting only of "money balls" was added, bringing up the maximum possible score to 34 points.