Park Hye-jin breaks 700 3-point shots… 6th in WKBL history
Park Hye-jin of Woori Bank surpassed the 700 mark in personal career 3-pointers.
Park Hye-jin of Asan Woori Bank Woori WON played 35 minutes and 24 seconds in the Shinhan Bank SOL 2022-2023 Women’s Professional Basketball regular league round 5 match held at Asan Yi Sun-shin Gymnasium on the 5th, recording 13 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. .
Park Hye-jin, who had recorded 699 3-pointers in her career until the previous game, broke her career 700 3-pointers by adding two 3-pointers that day. It is the 6th record in WKBL history.
Park Hye-jin has made 701 3-pointers in 465 games since her debut so far, she is shooting 1.51 per game and she has an average 3-point shooting percentage of 33.9%.
Park Hye-jin, who graduated from Samcheonpo Girls’ High School and joined Woori Bank as the 1st overall pick in the 2009 WKBL Freshman Selection, made her professional debut in a match against Shinhan Bank on November 14, 2008. In the first quarter of the Bucheon expedition against Il Shinsegae, he made his first professional 3-point shot.
On October 21, 2012 she made her 100th three-pointer against Samsung Life, and on February 4, 2016, she again recorded her 300th three-pointer against Samsung Life.
On January 9, 2019, she broke her 500 3-pointer mark for the 10th time in her WKBL career, in a match against OK Savings Bank (now BNK), and on February 1, 2021, against Hana 1Q, she broke her 600 mark. Scored a 3-point shot. This is her 7th WKBL career record. 스포츠토토
She surpassed her 700 mark by adding 100 3-pointers in 50 games.
▲ Park Hye-jin’s major 3-point shot records
Among the active players, Kang I-seul (KB) and Kim Jung-eun (Woori Bank) are the players who entered the countdown of 700 3-point shots following Park Hye-jin.
Iseul Kang, who is the youngest player in the WKBL with 300 individual 3-pointers, is currently recording 674 3-pointers.
If the current trend is maintained this season, she is expected to break the 700 mark in three-pointers by the beginning of next season at the latest. It is highly likely that Byeon Yeon-ha, who achieved the record in 29 years, 10 months and 18 days, will set a new record as the youngest BNK coach.
Kim Jong-un, who set the WKBL’s youngest record when reaching 100 and 200 three-pointers in his personal career, also made 664 total, leaving 36 out of 700.
▲ List of WKBL personal career 700 3-pointers