Lakers rookie Brandon Ingram says he never missed a free throw in high school, which is weird because he missed 105

Hi! Here’s a line from Chris Mannix’s nice piece about Brandon Ingram drawing comparisons to Kevin Durant:

A stringy, 6-foot-2 guard as a freshman grew, by his own estimation, two inches every year to finish high school as a slender 6-8 forward. Spins, fadeaways, step-backs — Ingram had it all. 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.

I didn’t know 2-year-old high school free throw shooting numbers are the stuff of legend, but I do know they are readily available online, and ...

(via MaxPreps, which I believe to be reliable, and if you disagree I’ll point out that Ingram’s Duke profile confirms a bunch of the other stats on his MaxPreps page, and also that it’s goddamn impossible that a star player with many trips to the foul line never missed a single free throw in hundreds of attempts.)

Ingram was a 77 percent free throw shooter in high school. That’s fine! It is not 100 percent, so I’m confused where this legend came from, or why Ingram so confidently confirms it, unless there is a joke in here that I’m missing. Ingram even missed a free throw in the All-American game! Which, again, is fine!

My only guess besides this being an inside joke I’m missing is that this is an abbreviated reference to a more specific statistic. Perhaps this:

... which is cool, I guess.

So yeah, I don’t get it. Brandon Ingram is great. He’s a decent free throw shooter, too. I just can’t explain how anyone has deduced that he was ever a perfect free throw shooter, nor why.

(h/t to the lovely Frank Madden)