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Who is the best left handed african american free throw shooter (percentage wise) in nba history?

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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any consistent data regarding NBA players' hand preference. Since most of them are more or less ambidextrous, the hand preference kind of becomes a moot point.

But you did post an interesting question which made me notice that, although the NBA is, to be honest, dominated by African-Americans, there are only 4 of them in the all-time top 10 in free-throw shooting:

1. Mark Price (2,135 / 2,362)           .904
2. Rick Barry  (3,818 / 4,243)          .900
3. Steve Nash (1,258 / 1,409)           .893
4. Calvin Murphy (3,445 / 3,864)        .892   <-
5. Scott Skiles (1,548 / 1,741)         .889   
6. Reggie Miller (5,987 / 6,758)        .886   <-
6. Larry Bird (3,960 / 4,471)           .886
8. Predrag Stojakovic (1,373 / 1,551) .885
8. Ray Allen (2,199 / 2,486)            .885   <-
8. Darrell Armstrong (1,279 / 1,446)    .885   <-

I'm afraid that's all I can do. Sorry.

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