Marco Belinelli First Italian to Ever Win Three-Point Contest at NBA All-Star Game

| Mon, 02/17/2014 - 09:17
Marco Belinelli

San Antonio Spurs' Marco Belinelli won the Three-Point Contest at NBA All-Star Saturday night.

He scored an impressive 24 points in the tiebreaker final round against Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal, becoming the first Italian player to ever win the Three-Point Contest and the third European, after Peja Stojakovic and Dirk Nowitzki.

Belinelli made six straight shots at one point. 

"I was a little bit nervous at the beginning and I think that I shot like two airballs," Belinelli, who is originally from San Giovanni in Persiceto, a very small town near Bologna, said. "But in the end I was focused. I really cared about this trophy."

Watch Belinelli as he fends off the challenge from Beal to win the Foot Locker 3-Point Contest:

Congrats Marco!