Besides computers, basketball was the other pillar of my young life. At 12yo I was 6'3" and was playing basketball approx 7 hours a day at the local recreation center mostly to get away from my verbally abusive parents.
By 14yo, I was playing, as a freshmen in high school, on the varsity team with the second highest scoring and rebounding averages on the team. My basketball career ended suddenly with a ACL knee injury the first practice of my senior year.
My quite tenuous claim-to-fame is I once scored, in high school, 32 points against 6'11" Will Perdue, whom eventually won a world title with the Chicago Bulls.[0]
Modern basketball analytics have discovered that there are only 2 good shots...a 3-pointer and a dunk. If you do the math, the added extra point for a "three" and the very high-percentage outcome of 2 points for a dunk make them the ideal scoring mechanisms.