The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. A shooting guard’s main objective is to score points for his team. Some teams ask their shooting guards to bring up the ball as well; these players are known colloquially as combo guards. Kobe Bryant, for example, is a shooting guard who is as good a playmaker as he is a scorer; other examples of combo guards are Jamal Crawford, Allen Iverson, Randy Foye, Dwyane Wade, Gilbert Arenas, Tyreke Evans, and Jason Terry. A player who can switch between playing shooting guard and small forward is known as a swingman. Notable swing men (also known as wing players) include Gordon Hayward, Andre Iguodala, Paul Pierce, Evan Turner, Stephen Jackson, and Tracy McGrady, also Rudy Fernández having an under average size for small forward. In the NBA, shooting guards usually range from 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) to 6′ 8″ (2.03 m).

Notable shooting guards include current NBA players Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Alec Burks, Ray Allen, Manu Ginóbili, Leandro Barbosa, Vince Carter, Joe Johnson, DeMar DeRozan, James Harden, Klay Thompson, Monta Ellis, Arron Afflalo and former players Michael Jordan, Tracy McGrady, Clyde Drexler, Sam Jones, Earl Monroe, Reggie Miller, Allen Iverson, Joe Dumars, George Gervin, and Jeff Hornacek.

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