Two of the World’s Greatest Shooters Consider the Four-Point Shot

If you’ve watched HBO lately, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a promo for the upcoming show hosted by Bill Simmons, formerly of ESPN and Grantland, called “Any Given Wednesday.” The ad, unapologetically cribbed from a scene in “Bull Durham,” is titled “I Believe” and shows Simmons spouting a string of alternately odd and obvious convictions—“soup is the perfect food,” “billionaires should pay for their own fucking stadiums”—among them, that the N.B.A. should introduce a four-point line. This is not a new idea, but it has gained a surprising head of steam lately, and for a simple reason: when the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry has the ball, a thirty-foot shot suddenly appears as natural and possible as a twenty-three-footer, and sixty-two-footers are, somehow, not entirely unexpected.

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