The best free throw shooter ever is not Michael Jordan or Steph Curry. It’s Elena Delle Donne. Her success rate at the free throw line across her career is 93.4 percent. That’s not just the highest in WNBA history but higher than any player in NBA history as well. If you look at her postseason record it’s even higher: 96.4 percent. Put simply: she is the best free throw shooter ever.1 Her secret is to trust the simple process she has practiced since eighth grade. She steps up to the line, finds the dot with her right foot, lines up her feet, takes three dribbles, makes an L with her arm, then
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