The Phoenix Suns' Devin Booker canned a record 28 points in the final round of the 2018 JBL 3-Point Contest to reign supreme over a crop of the NBA's best shooters. Booker took down the Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson and the L.A. Clippers Tobias Harris in the contest's final frame.

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Booker finished the first round with 17 points, while the rest of the competitors fared as follow:

Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors): 19
Tobias Harris (L.A. Clippers): 18
Wayne Ellington (Miami Heat): 17
Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards): 15
Eric Gordon (Houston Rockets): 12
Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors): 11
Paul George (Oklahoma City Thunder): 9

The most surprising of all these was obviously Harris who came out with guns ablaze to net 18 total points in the opening salvo. However, he has been shooting at his best this season with a 40 percent accuracy from long distance.

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Harris moved on to the finals with Booker and Thompson, who won the event in 2016 when the All-Star Weekend was held in Toronto. Thompson, who is also making a career-high 45 percent of his long-distance attempts this season, had been billed as the favorite entering the night.

However, Booker had other plans in mind. The proud owner of 70 points in one game is, as with Harris and Thompson, shooting the best 3-point mark of his career at 38 percent. He's also been scorching for the Suns this season with a career-high 24.2 points to go along with 4.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.

Booker is the second Suns player to be hailed as the 3-point champion. Back in the 2005 All-Star Weekend in Denver, Quentin Richardson took home the trophy. This is the first in Booker's career, but there's no reason to believe that it's the last.