In basketball, a free throw is an unopposed attempt to score points from behind the free throw line. [1] The VTB United League's free throw percentage leader is the player with the highest free throw percentage in a given season.
To qualify as a leader for the free throw percentage, a player must play in at least 60 percent of the total number of possible games.
Nando de Colo is the only player in league history to lead the league in free throw percentage multiple times and also to lead the said statistics in consecutive seasons.
Season | Player | Position [lower-alpha 1] | Team | Games played | Free throws made | Free throws attempted | Free throw % | Ref. |
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2009–10 | Kelly McCarty | G/F | BC Khimki | 8 | 30 | 32 | .9375 | [2] |
2010–11 | Terrell Lyday | G | BC UNICS Kazan | 8 | 43 | 50 | .8600 | [3] |
2011–12 | Aleksey Kotishevskiy | G | BC Spartak Saint Petersburg | 11 | 12 | 12 | 1.000 | [4] |
2012–13 | Sergey Karasev | G/F | Triumph Lyubertsy | 20 | 112 | 126 | .8793 | [5] |
2013–14 | Renaldas Seibutis | G | BC Rytas Vilnius | 18 | 49 | 51 | .9608 | [6] |
2014–15 | Nando De Colo | G | CSKA Moscow | 32 | 89 | 99 | .8990 | [7] |
2015–16 | Branko Mirkovic | G | Tsmoki-Minsk | 28 | 38 | 39 | .9744 | [8] |
2016–17 | Nando De Colo (2×) | G | CSKA Moscow | 24 | 115 | 125 | .9200 | [9] |
2017–18 | Nando De Colo (3×) | G | CSKA Moscow | 26 | 126 | 134 | .9403 | [10] |
2018–19 | Nando De Colo (4×) | G | CSKA Moscow | 25 | 99 | 105 | .9429 | [11] |
2019–20 [lower-alpha 2] | Markel Starks | G | BC Avtodor | 18 | 38 | 40 | .9500 | [12] |
2020–21 | Cecil Williams | F | Enea Zielona Góra | 16 | 20 | 20 | 1.000 | [13] |
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