Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond set an NBA record Wednesday night by missing 23 free throws in his team's 123-114 victory over the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center, per SportsCenter.
Despite connecting on just 13 of 36 attempts at the charity stripe, the 22-year-old scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the road victory that helped the Pistons improve to 23-19.
At first, he wasn't in a mood to discuss the record following the game, per the Associated Press (via ESPN.com).
"We won the game today," he said when asked about it.
However, Drummond did open up on the subject later, according to the AP.
"I'm not going to miss them all," he said. "I've worked on it enough where I'm going to build a rhythm and over time I ended up getting one."
Stats showed just how inept Drummond was at the stripe compared to other historically bad free-throw shooters:
He has the Rockets to thank in part for his dubious achievement because they worked hard to get the 35 percent free-throw shooter to the line as much as possible.
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Andre Drummond Sets NBA Record with 23 Missed Free Throws vs. Rockets
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