Top 5 free-throw shooters of the 2020-21 NBA season

#3 Danilo Gallinari - 92.5%

Danilo Gallinari with the LA Clippers in 2019 [Source: Los Angeles Times]

Danilo Gallinari has never been afraid of the foul line in his 13-year NBA career. He averaged 92.5% on 3.4 attempts per game, which is a small sample size but qualifies him for this list.

He has averaged over 90% in a season five times. He was a key factor in the Atlanta Hawks' deep playoff runs, as he came off the bench and consistently gave them buckets.

He averaged nearly 13 points per game in the playoffs with the Hawks while shooting 40% from beyond the arc. Danilo Gallinari has shot more than 90% from the free-throw line in the playoffs for three of the five years he has been in the postseason, though.

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#2 Damian Lillard - 92.8%

Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers [Source: DraftKings Nation]

Damian Lillard shot his career-best from the free-throw line in the 2020-21 NBA season, with 92.8%. He has also taken more free throws than anyone on this list, with 7.2 attempts a game. Lillard has attempted a total of 484 free throws over the course of his 67 games, knocking down 449 of them.

Yesterday was the 8th time Damian Lillard shot 50% from the field, 50% from 3, 100% from the free throw line, and scored 40That's as many 40-point, 50/50/100 games as Kevin Durant or James Harden pic.twitter.com/acMfxd9med

— Basketball Reference (@bball_ref) March 5, 2021

Damian Lillard has attempted more than seven free throws per game in a season for four of the last five years. He has shot over 90% in a season three times in his career.

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#1 Chris Paul - 93.4%

Chris Paul with the Phoenix Suns [Source: Forbes]

Chris Paul led the NBA in free-throw percentage last season with 93.4. However, he attempted a career-low in free throws, and his sample size is quite small.

He attempts 4.7 free throws a game, but last season, he attempted just 2.6, which is a huge dip. Chris Paul attempted 181 free throws while making 93.4% of them. For comparison, Curry, Irving and Lillard all attempted more than 200 free throws. with Curry and Lillard crossing 300.

Nevertheless, Paul was set on automatic from the free-throw line last season. He made clutch free throws for the Phoenix Suns in the 2021 NBA playoffs as he led them to the NBA Finals.

.@CP3's explanation for why he was thinking about his son while at the free-throw line late in the @Suns Game 4 win 😂#NBAWCF presented by AT&T pic.twitter.com/LH4bDH1MOO

— NBA (@NBA) June 27, 2021

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