Glen Rice once told Grant Hill why he will always be a great shooter: “I always tell people, in order for me to get rid of it, you gotta cut my arm off”

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When people talk about elite shooters, most people forget how good Glen Rice was during his prime. He was one of the premier three-point shooters of the 1990s, playing like he was way ahead of his time. Rice was shooting 5+ three-pointers a game, a rarity before the entertaining three-point revolution in the mid-2010s led by Stephen Curry.

G Money was a bucket already when he got drafted, averaging 20.8 points and 40.9% on long-distance shots from 1989 to 1998. He earned three All-Star Game appearances and two All-NBA nods. Rice was even an MVP candidate during the 1995/96 season when he scored 26.8 points per game with an absurd 47% from beyond the arc.

He’s well into retirement, but Glen feels he still has that shooting stroke in a conversation with fellow 1990s superstar Grant Hill.

“I always tell people, in order for me to get rid of it, you gotta cut my arm off,” Rice said about his shooting stroke. “Yeah, that was a lot of fun (1997 All-Star Game MVP). First of all, to be able to do it on the night they announced the 50 best players, that was unbelievable… To have Michael Jordan throwing you the basketball, wanting you to keep going, that was an incredible moment for me.”

Rice believes he’s up there alongside the greatest shooters

The league has elite shooters now, but it also had a lot of overlooked talent from the past. Glen is one of those underrated players because he was ahead of his time. He was a legitimate sniper in the 1990s, an era where the mid-range shot was king between guys like Michael Jordan and Karl Malone dominating with that shot.

However, Rice and Reggie Miller proved that three-pointers could be a weapon for players. The NBA would only catch up in the mid-2010s, but that proves Glen was born too early. If Rice had been drafted in the modern era, he could have been a legitimate star.

The former Michigan Wolverine is confident he’s right up there when talking about the league’s greatest snipers. He believes he could outshoot anyone who puts him against him, which might be surprising, but he has the track record to be confident.

“WHY, this is my argument as well. Line them all up, and I will shoot against whoever. Damn shame, but I’m not the only guy they leave out,” Rice wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) account.

Rice would have been a fantastic fit for any modern team

G Money was a shooting specialist, which made him an anomaly during his era; however, nowadays, he is accepted to be a small forward or a center shooting threes because that is what teams want to center their offense on.

Rice could be similar to Klay Thompson or even better, as Glen showcased he could create for himself during the 1990s. Combining his personality and skill set with the green light players have today, it would have been hard to deny Rice’s talent as a shooter akin to the likes of Steph, Klay, and Damian Lillard.