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NBA Free Throw Rate Plummets In January As Scoring Totals Drop Across League

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  • NBA Free Throw Rate Plummets In January As Scoring Totals Drop Across League

    Free throw attempts have plummeted across the NBA in January, leading to a significant scoring decline and raising questions about whether officials received instructions to alter how games are being called. Team trips to the free throw line have fallen from 26.1 per 100 possessions in October to 21.7 in January, representing a nearly 20 percent decline in free throw rate according to pbpstats.com data. The result is games are seeing approximately eight fewer points on average in January. The...

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