Cam Johnson has become one of the league’s best free throw shooters this season, converting 89.6 percent of his 3.8 attempts per game through Feb. 27. Only Devin Booker, Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry have better percentages than the Nets forward thus far.
NBA’s Top 2024-25 FT%
*through 2/27, at least 3.5 FTA per game
- Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) — 93.2 FT%
- Damian Lillard (Milwaukee Bucks) — 91.8 FT%
- Kyrie Irving (Dallas Mavericks) — 91 FT%
- Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns) — 89.7 FT%
- Cameron Johnson (Brooklyn Nets) — 89.6 FT%
- Collin Sexton (Utah Jazz) — 89.4 FT%
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder) — 89.3 FT%
- Trey Murphy III (New Orleans Pelicans)— 88.7 FT%
- Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) — 88.2 FT%
- Malcolm Brogdon (Washington Wizards) — 88 FT%
It also marks Johnson’s best conversion rate at the charity stripe since 2021-22 when he hit 86 percent of his 1.7 attempts per game. He’s averaging his most free throw attempts per game since the 2022-23 run that brought him to Brooklyn.
Cam Johnson FT% by season
- 2024-25: 89.6 FT%*
- 2021-22: 86 FT%
- 2020-21: 84.7 FT%
- 2022-23: 84.2 FT%
- 2019-20: 80.7 FT%
- 2023-24: 78.99 FT%
Five of his seven career games with eight or more free throw makes have come this season, including a career-high 11 makes on Dec. 19. Johnson recently went a perfect 8-for-8 from the line in the Nets’ Feb. 22 clash with the 76ers, which ended in a thrilling 105-103 win for Brooklyn off Nic Claxton’s game-winning heroics.
In his Feb. 24 follow-up performance against the Wizards, Johnson went 5-for-5 from the line. He currently holds the fourth-best regular season free throw percentage in franchise history behind superstars Kevin Durant (x2) and Kyrie Irving.
50/40/90 Club
Through Feb. 27, Johnson is shooting 48.4 percent from the field, 40.9 percent from three-point range and 89.6 percent from the free throw line. He continues to flirt with greatness, on the cusp of joining Larry Bird, Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Malcolm Brogdon and Stephen Curry in the coveted 50/40/90 club.
Bird, Nash and Durant are the only players who have multiple 50-40-90 campaigns. Durant’s two seasons are interestingly separated by a decade (2012 2022), while Nash recorded four such regular-season efforts between 2005 and 2010 (one free throw in 2006-07 off from five). Larry Legend reached the shooting honor consecutively in 1986 and 1987.