The 50-40-90 Club in the NBA (Every Season)

The 50-40-90 club is one of basketball’s most exclusive shooting achievements: a season in which a player hits at least 50% from the field, 40% from three-point range and 90% from the free-throw line. Nine players have managed it, across 13 seasons, and Steve Nash owns the most with four.

Doing it once puts a player among the best pure shooters the game has produced. Doing it four times, as Nash did, is a category of its own. Below is every qualifying season, the thresholds explained, and why the feat pulls against itself. Figures are as of the 2025 season.

Every 50-40-90 season

Here is the complete list of qualifying seasons, with each player’s shooting splits.

Player	Season	FG%	3P%	FT%
Larry Bird	1986-87	52.5	40.0	91.0
Larry Bird	1987-88	52.7	41.4	91.6
Mark Price	1988-89	52.6	44.1	90.1
Reggie Miller	1993-94	50.3	42.1	90.8
Steve Nash	2005-06	51.2	43.9	92.1
Dirk Nowitzki	2006-07	50.2	41.6	90.4
Steve Nash	2007-08	50.4	47.0	90.6
Steve Nash	2008-09	50.3	43.9	93.3
Steve Nash	2009-10	50.7	42.8	93.8
Kevin Durant	2012-13	51.0	41.6	90.5
Stephen Curry	2015-16	50.4	45.4	90.8
Malcolm Brogdon	2018-19	50.5	42.6	92.8
Kyrie Irving	2020-21	50.6	40.2	92.2

Nine players, 13 seasons. Nash and Bird account for six of them between them; the other seven members each cleared the bar exactly once.

The thresholds, and why they qualify as a set

The three numbers each isolate a different skill. Fifty percent from the field measures overall efficiency, which for guards is genuinely hard because so many of their shots come from distance. Forty percent from three tests range shooting. Ninety percent from the line reflects touch and repeatability under no defensive pressure.

To keep the list honest, the NBA applies minimum attempt thresholds — enough made field goals, threes and free throws that a player has to sustain the accuracy across a full season. A shooter who goes 5-for-10 from three over a month does not sneak in. That gate is why the club has stayed at nine members rather than dozens.

Steve Nash: the efficiency benchmark

Nash is the defining name here. His four 50-40-90 seasons came in a five-year window during his Phoenix peak, and one of them — 2007-08 — included a 47.0% mark from three, the highest three-point figure any club member has posted while qualifying.

What set Nash apart was doing it as a high-usage point guard who ran an entire offense. He was taking and making difficult shots off the dribble, not just spotting up, and still cleared all three bars four separate times. For where his passing ranks alongside the shooting, see our list of the most assists in NBA history, a leaderboard Nash sits near the very top of.

Why the club stays small

The catch is built into the math. A three-pointer counts as one field-goal attempt, so the more threes a player takes, the harder it becomes to keep overall field-goal percentage at or above 50. Stephen Curry is the clearest case: he is one of the best shooters ever, yet his three-point volume often pushes his field-goal percentage just under the line, which is why he has only one 50-40-90 season despite the accuracy.

That tension is the whole story. Big men clear 50% from the field easily but rarely shoot enough threes; volume three-point shooters clear 40% from deep but struggle to stay above 50% overall. The 50-40-90 season needs a player who resolves that contradiction for an entire year, and only nine have.

If you want to test how well you know the game’s sharpshooters, try Guess the NBA Player, or see the record book for the most three-pointers in a game. Four 50-40-90 seasons is the mark to beat, and Nash’s name has sat on top of this list for over a decade.