Steve Kerr Leads NBA Career Three-Point Percentage at 45.40%
Steve Kerr leads NBA career 3P% at 45.40%. See the top five, the 250-make minimum, Luke Kennard’s active lead and Kyle Korver’s season record.
Steve Kerr has the highest qualifying career three-point percentage in NBA history: 45.40%. He made 726 of 1,599 three-point attempts across 910 regular-season games. The Warriors’ official career summary confirms those totals, and the career leaderboard still ranks him first as of October 26, 2026.
That answer is for NBA regular-season career accuracy, not playoff shooting, a single season or the most three-pointers made. It also measures conversion rate—not how many shots a player creates or how difficult those shots are.
How the percentage is calculated
Three-point percentage, usually written 3P%, is the share of three-point attempts a player makes:
3P% = three-pointers made ÷ three-pointers attempted × 100
For Kerr, that is 726 ÷ 1,599 × 100 = 45.40%, rounded to two decimal places. In plain language, he made roughly 45 of every 100 threes he attempted.
Career percentage uses total makes divided by total attempts. It is not a simple average of a player’s individual season percentages: a season with 200 attempts must carry more weight than one with 20.
The career three-point percentage leaders
The table uses Basketball-Reference’s NBA-only regular-season career list, checked October 26, 2026. Percentages are shown to two decimal places; active players’ figures can change. Source: career leaderboard.
| Rank | Player | Career 3P% |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Kerr | 45.40% |
| 2 | Luke Kennard | 44.25% |
| 3 | Hubert Davis | 44.09% |
| 4 | Dražen Petrović | 43.74% |
| 5 | Joe Harris | 43.59% |
Luke Kennard is the highest-ranked active player, but Kerr still leads overall.
To qualify for this list, a player needs 250 career three-pointers made—not 250 attempts. Basketball-Reference specifies that threshold in its rate-statistic requirements. Without a minimum, a player who went 1-for-1 could appear above every established shooter despite providing almost no evidence of sustained accuracy.
Why Kerr’s record does not settle the “best shooter” debate
Workload and role matter. Kerr averaged 1.8 three-point attempts per game over his career, according to his career statistics. A percentage does not distinguish an open catch-and-shoot attempt from a contested pull-up, nor does it reward a player for generating more shooting opportunities.
Stephen Curry, for example, is below Kerr in career percentage at 42.15% as of October 26, 2026, on the same leaderboard. That does not by itself establish which player provided more three-point scoring value. Our best three-point shooters of all time comparison considers accuracy alongside volume, playoff performance and era.
Era also changes the comparison. The NBA used a shorter three-point line from 1994–95 through 1996–97, seasons that fall within Kerr’s career. NBA.com’s history of the three-point era documents that change. His percentage remains the record; it simply was not accumulated under identical conditions to every modern player’s.
What if you mean the best percentage in one season?
For a completed qualifying NBA regular season, the record belongs to Kyle Korver: 53.64% for Utah in 2009–10, on 59 makes in 110 attempts. Contemporary reporting on Korver’s record confirms the shot totals, while the season leaderboard lists his .5364 mark.
The qualifying minimum that season was 55 made threes, rather than today’s 82, under the historical requirements. Korver’s season record and Kerr’s career record therefore answer different questions—and both require the sample size to make sense.