THURSDAY’S QUICKIE QUIZ
>>> Five times an NBA player has made 26 or more free throws in a game . . . Wilt Chamberlain had 28 in his 100-point game and Michael Jordan nailed 26 in a 50-point game . . . Which one player holds the other three spots (a 26, a 27 and a 28)?
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THURSDAY’S SINGLE DIGITS
>>> Joel Embiid missed his first free-throw attempt 59 seconds into the Sixers-Celtics game Wednesday, then made his last 20 . . . That tied for the fifth most by a player in a game for the team since moving to Philadelphia in 1963 . . . The Sixers’ record is 24 by Willie Burton (Dec. 13, 1994) and Allen Iverson (Feb. 12, 2005), both of which were also regulation games.
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>>> On the morning of Jan. 21, 2019, Joel Embiid’s career free-throw percentage was 78.4% . . . Since then, he is at 85.6% (143-for-167) . . . He has made 33 of his last 36 attempts.
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>>> Villanova’s three-point shooting breakdown as a team for this season (with record):
37.1% . . . First 21 Games (17-4)
29.8% . . . Next 8 Games (4-4)
37.1% . . . Last 5 Games (4-1)
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>>> We have been staring at the list of NCAA Division I career scorers for the better part of six weeks as Campbell’s Chris Clemons neared (and Tuesday passed) La Salle’s Lionel Simmons for third place . . . What we had never noticed before was this: Simmons has the worst free-throw percentage (72.2%) of any of what is now 10 career 3,000-point scorers . . . Theoretically, if he had made 76% of his 932 attempts, he would have 35 more points and be holding on to the second spot on that list behind the great Pete Maravich.
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QUICKIE QUIZ ANSWER
>>> Utah’s Adrian Dantley had NBA games of 26, 27 and 28 free throws made to account for three of the top five regular-season performances ever.