Being a left-handed basketball player isn’t nearly as pronounced a trait compared to other sports like baseball or football. Perhaps more a subtle abnormality than anything else, basketball action moves so quickly at times that most people don’t immediately recognize which hand a player is shooting with.
Left-handers as a whole comprise about 10-12 percent of the world’s population and of the 538 NBA players who attempted at least one single shot last season, just 49 were lefties (9.1%), according to Stathead.com. If you filter that total to just players who logged 200+ minutes, that percentage rises slightly to roughly 9.