Courtesy of Jon Nichols and Basketball-Statistics.com, here's an interesting piece on the influence of star players on teammate 3-point shooting frequencies when they're on the court. For instance, last year's Magic shot a three-pointer 43% of the time when Dwight Howard was in the game -- and only 32% of the time when he wasn't -- despite Howard obviously being a non-3-point shooter. Intuitively, we notice that all the attention on Howard opened up the perimeter shot for his teammates, and it's cool to see the stats back up that particular observation.

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