LeBron James
Shooting Data
This slideshow shares and analyzes data on LeBron James’ shooting performance throughout his basketball career.
First, we will look at a comprehensive data table providing statistics on LeBron's shooting performance from his first season in 2003-2004, all the way up to his 2012-2013 season.
Afterwards, we will look more closely at LeBron’s shooting distance, examining his shot distribution across his entire career.
Shown below is a table from Fox Sports providing lots of different data on LeBron's shooting performance across his first ten NBA seasons. To see the data more closely, you can zoom in to the chart.
From this data table, we can see that LeBron James’ field goals made (FGM) are pretty consistent across the first ten years of his career. We can see that his lowest year for FGM is 2011-2012 with 621. This is a shift from the consistent figures in the 700s/800s for most of his other years. However, when we look at his average minutes per game (MPG), we can see that for the year 2011-2012 he had the lowest average minutes played (37.5 mins per game), which gives us context/explains why his FGM for that year is lower.
This second figure shown below, is a graph depicting LeBron's shooting distribution across his career. This figure was sourced from the Ringer, a popular sports website.
In this graph, the red line represents "3-Pointers," and the blue line represents shots "At-Rim."From this graph, we can see how LeBron's shooting style has changed over time. We can see that around 2021, the red line for "3-Pointers" surpassed the blue “At-Rim” line. This marks a significant change from the beginning of LeBron’s career, when he was mostly shooting “At-Rim.”
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LeBron James 2003-2013 Regular Seaons Overall Shooting Stats (Source: Fox Sports)
LeBron James All Time Shooting Distance Stats (Source: The Ringer)