James Harden is one of the most capable of making free throws in the NBA, and has been able to rank third in the league this season on average free throws per game under the NBA's new rules; however, so far this season, Harden's team has only averaged 19th in the league in the regular season.
Harden has averaged the league's first free throw shots per game in the regular season for six consecutive seasons, and even this season he averaged 8.0 of the third-highest number of free throws per game of all players in the league, averaging 0.7 more free throws per game than the previous season. Harden may be the NBA's most capable free throw maker, and even the harsh new NBA rules have not really stopped him from standing on the free throw line.
In addition to Harden, Kevin Durant, one of the Nets' Big Three, is also a master of free throws, ranking 6th in the league with an average of 7.1 free throws per game in the regular season so far this season, and the Nets are also the only team in the league with more than 1 player to average the number of free throw shots per game in the league this season. However, the Nets have averaged 20.9 free throws per game so far this season, and only rank 19th among the 30 teams in the league, and fishy teams like the Pistons have averaged more free throws per game than the Nets.
So far this season, two players in the league have averaged double-double free throws per game in the regular season, namely Joel Embiid and Alphabet Brother, of which Embiid ranked first in the league with 11.1 times and Alphabet Brother ranked second with a difference of 0.1 times; however, Philadelphia averaged 21.7 free throws per game and only ranked 11th in the league, and the Bucks, who averaged 21.6 free throws per game, ranked 12th in the league, and they did not reach the top ten in the league in the ranking of free throws.
So far this season, there are 8 teams in the league that have averaged no less than 22.0 free throws per game, including the dark horses and the troubled Lakers, but only one team with no less than 23.0 times, the Rockets, has averaged 24.8 free throws per game.
Against the backdrop of the league's all-time low average of free throws per game this season, the rebuilding Rockets became the team with the most free throws per game after Harden left. Although the Rockets did not have any players with an average of 5.0 free throws per game, 5 Rockets players averaged no less than 3.0 free throws per game. However, the Rockets' 71.8% free throw shooting rate this season is the lowest in the league, which is far from the Nets' second-highest free throw shooting rate of 81.6% in the league, which partly shows that this young team still needs to be honed well.