Over the past several seasons, OKC Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has unjustly built up a reputation for being the league's newest "free throw merchant" -- a player who relies heavily on their charity stripe activity to inflate their scoring numbers.
Time and time again, this kind of narrative has been proven factually incorrect, yet, for some reason, people can't seem to let it die, with new riders of the haterade train seemingly hopping on every day.
LeBron James appears to be the most recent person to have purchased a ticket to ride, as he recently stated on an episode of the Mind The Game Podcast that one of the primary game plans to stop the reigning MVP is to "keep him off the free throw line.