Gone are the days of Hack-a-Shaq in the NBA, thankfully. Rule changes have minimized the use of that strategy. Still, several of the league's worst free-throw shooters in the last decade made a ton of trips to the line before 2016 because of their struggles and that loophole.
Steven Adams
Adams has a 53.6 career rate, and he recently completed his worst season. The veteran center made a ghastly 36.4 percent of his shots at the charity stripe in 2022-23. Unfortunately for Adams, the unexpected (and literal) gut-punches from former OKC assistant coach Darko Rajaković didn't work out.
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Clint Capela
He has converted just 53.5 percent of his freebies with a 37.9 clip—the lowest of his career when a regular—in 2015-16. On the bright side, he finished with a 60.3 mark last season.
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DeAndre Jordan
Jordan's best season mark was a middling 52.5 clip, and he ended below 40 in three of those years. He never topped 50 percent in the first five years of the last decade, either.
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Andre Drummond
In the first five seasons of his career, he mustered a 38.1 percentage—with a 38.2 clip. Drummond even set an NBA record with 23 misses in a January 2016 game.
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