Field goal (basketball)

The same term is also the official wording used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and high school basketball.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the NBA record for field goals made in a career with 15,837.

[3] Baron Davis holds the NBA record for the longest successful field goal with an 89-foot shot on February 17, 2001.

[4][5][6] Diana Taurasi has the record for the greatest number of field goals in a WNBA season.

In 2006, she attempted 660 field goals and achieved 298 of them having the Guinness World Record for both items.

A two-point field goal scored at the basket
A shot from beyond the three-point line for a three-point field goal