Brandon Ingram says he never missed a free throw in high school

According to the legend of Brandon Ingram’s high school career in North Carolina and Ingram himself, he never missed a single free throw before attending Duke.

There are cases where basketball players have added more height or weight onto their listed totals and have even added a couple points or two on their per-game totals. (Just ask Skip Bayless.)

But what Brandon Ingram attempted to confirm about his high school playing career to The Vertical’s Chris Mannix was utter silliness.

According to Ingram, he never missed a single free throw in high school.

Mannix featured Ingram in a piece on the comparisons between Ingram and Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant and the part about Ingram’s free throw story came up.

"He averaged 24 points and 10 rebounds as a senior. Legend had it that in four years, Ingram never missed a free throw. So? “Most definitely, that’s true,” Ingram said."

Now hold on a minute here.

In four years of high school basketball, Ingram is telling Mannix that he never missed a free throw in a game? Like, ever? There’s no way that’s even remotely true.

There’s another piece to the mystery of Ingram’s perfect free throw shooting: Ingram’s high school numbers from MaxPreps (h/t Bleacher Report). According to their numbers, Ingram shot 77 percent in his final three years of playing at Kinston High School in North Carolina.

To further show that the Ingram legend might be a bit overdone, Ingram shot 68.2 percent from the line last season in his lone year with the Duke Blue Devils before becoming the No. 2 overall pick to the Los Angeles Lakers this past June.

It might not be the truest tale ever told, but it makes for a good legend to tell his kids someday.

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