Listing Dominique Wilkins as French is a bit of a stretch- he was born to a US military family stationed in France. Lived most of his life in the US and played internationally for the USA.
If Wilt were just an average free throw shooter, he would have had over 8000. It's the one area of his game that makes others contender for the GOAT. He was probably the 2nd most dominate defensive player of his era.
i did the calculations a few months ago, and Wilt wasnt an average FT shooter, he was *terrible*, he and shaq, both horible FT shooters, shot 53% for their careers... I crunched the numbers, and if the shot say, a still low 67% they would have had 2-3 ppg added to their career averages and 3,000 points added to their career totals
@@Defender78 meant if he "were" simply average please excuse the typo. The crazy bit is that he is on this list while being absolutely miserable from the line.
Deandre jordan is the modern day wilt chamberlain. Great in his time against the plumbers and firemen in the league back then of course. But today he would not be a superstar. Maybe an all star game once or twice.
@@johncraig4820 yes. Most players had day jobs up until 1980. So the competition for those “legends” wasn’t too good. It was decent back then but you can find decent players in high school today. You could actually find much better competition in high school today than there was in the pros back then.
Y'all keep asking about Shaq. He was too busy fouling offensively to get one on his opponent. He ran through people and fouled nearly every shot he took.
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Crazy Dolph is still in the top after 70 years just about
Listing Dominique Wilkins as French is a bit of a stretch- he was born to a US military family stationed in France. Lived most of his life in the US and played internationally for the USA.
You could argue that this is also a list of TRULY unstoppable players!
I remember watching Moses Malone back in the day. The man rarely missed a free throw.
76% career free throw shooter, missed a good 1/4 of his attempts
Stop the cappp 😂
If Wilt were just an average free throw shooter, he would have had over 8000. It's the one area of his game that makes others contender for the GOAT. He was probably the 2nd most dominate defensive player of his era.
i did the calculations a few months ago, and Wilt wasnt an average FT shooter, he was *terrible*, he and shaq, both horible FT shooters, shot 53% for their careers... I crunched the numbers, and if the shot say, a still low 67% they would have had 2-3 ppg added to their career averages and 3,000 points added to their career totals
@@Defender78 meant if he "were" simply average please excuse the typo. The crazy bit is that he is on this list while being absolutely miserable from the line.
Deandre jordan is the modern day wilt chamberlain. Great in his time against the plumbers and firemen in the league back then of course. But today he would not be a superstar. Maybe an all star game once or twice.
@@firstlast9916 Willis Reed, Nate Thurmond, Walt Bellamy, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Fire Station Number One just sitting around eating Chili.
@@johncraig4820 yes. Most players had day jobs up until 1980. So the competition for those “legends” wasn’t too good. It was decent back then but you can find decent players in high school today. You could actually find much better competition in high school today than there was in the pros back then.
I thought for sure Harden would have this record already.
Nah it’s the trash Malone guys that played in the expansion era
Moses Malone had just shy of 500 FT in the ABA. He is likely the most forgotten player today in the GOAT conversations.
He’s not even top 10
I would argue that hakeem olajuwon (2 rings) is ahead of moses malone (1 ring)
In the goat debate. Neither top 5 though.
Free-throw percentages:
Curry 91.0%
Nash 90.4%
Rick Barry 90.0%
Ray Allen 89.4%
Reggie Miller 88.8%
Only stat James Harden could go down as top 10
He's better than you. Get over it.
3 pointers? He’s number 3rd I think
I wonder if shaq made the list.
Where’s Shaq
Pretty sure these are made free throws, so Shaq shot 50% so he wouldn’t be on this list. unless this is a joke then don’t r/wooosh me
@@kiwilliams8460 you asked for it....... r/wooosh
Bro can’t shoot
Bro never made a free thorw
If this were attempts then we'd be talking
if you even breathed on kobe it was a foul. the league wanted him to be the Next One so bad, lol
That one doesn't look breakable in todays game. To many rest games.
Y'all keep asking about Shaq. He was too busy fouling offensively to get one on his opponent. He ran through people and fouled nearly every shot he took.
Yup. Look at 2001 finals vs Sixers
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Wonder Hakeem never appeared on this list.
Где Карри???
I think you mistook free throws for 3 pointers
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Shaq at the first place
Hell nah
Wheres shaq 🤣😂
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