LOS ANGELES – LeBron James is bad at free throws and he’s getting worse. He admitted as much a few weeks back – “I’m garbage, I suck from the free-throw line right now” — but realization hasn't led to rectification.
James is 13-24 from the line on the Lakers’ current road trip and shooting 60.7 percent in December. At the start of the campaign, his pair of misses cost his Los Angeles Lakers an overtime win against San Antonio. He has missed at least once in every game since Oct. 24 and hasn’t shot over 80 percent from the stripe in a game for over a month. In four games this season, he has shot better from 3-point range than from 15 feet.
His 73.8 percent career clip is hardly spectacular, but in a season in which James is dominant in every other way and his Lakers are considerably better than many expected, his free-throw wobbles are a puzzling outlier.
An important one?
Well, given that no player is perfect, there are a lot of things NBA teams can live with. If Ben Wallace (a 41.4 percent career free-throw shooter) could stick around for 17 years, no one is going to quibble too much about the biggest threat in the sport missing sometimes.
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