The official NBA season awards celebrate the leagueโ€™s best players, so Iโ€™m not going to focus on those. Instead, Iโ€™ve decided to take a look at some stats that should cause their holders a bit of shame and pain.

Least Points

Points arenโ€™t always easy to score, although to be fair most of these guys only saw a few minutes of total game action for the year.

0 points scored:

  1. Danny Green
  2. Ryan Archdiacono
  3. Justin Jackson
  4. Kaiser Gates
  5. Javonte Smart
  6. Jalen Crutcher
  7. Ron Harper Jr.
  8. Malcolm Catalan
  9. Andrew Funk
  10. Dmytro Skapintsev

Two points scored:

  1. Shaquille Harrison
  2. Hamidou Diallo
  3. Joshua Primo
  4. Quenton Jackson
  5. Leonard Miller
  6. Isaiah Wong
  7. Marckquis Nowell

Three points scored:

  1. Filip Petrusev
  2. Usman Garub
  3. Dariq Whitehead
  4. Pete Nance
  5. Adam Flagler.
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Least Rebounds

Not everybody can grab a board, especially with limited minutes.

0 rebounds grabbed:

  1. Isaiah Thomas
  2. Justin Jackson
  3. Lindell Wigginton
  4. Javonte Smart
  5. Jalen Crutcher
  6. Ron Harper Jr.
  7. Isaiah Wong
  8. Malcolm Calazon
  9. Dโ€™Moi Hodge
  10. Andrew Funk
  11. Adam Flagler
  12. Dmytro Skapintsev

One rebound grabbed:

  1. Kaiser Gates
  2. Ty Jerome
  3. Filip Petrusev
  4. Joshua Primo
  5. Alondes Williams
  6. Drew Peterson

Least Assists

Assists are probably the hardest thing to get when youโ€™re usually only playing in garbage time.

0 dimes:

  1. Justin Jackson
  2. Shaquille Harrison
  3. Kaiser Gates
  4. Lindell Wigginton
  5. Charlie Brown Jr.
  6. Filip Petrusev
  7. Joshua Primo
  8. Javone Smart
  9. Jalen Crutcher
  10. Alondes Williams
  11. Izaiah Brockington
  12. Seth Lundy
  13. Isaiah Wong
  14. Jordan Miller
  15. Adama Sanogo
  16. Malcolm Catalan
  17. Alex Fudge
  18. Pete Nance
  19. Andrew Funk
  20. Dmytro Skapintsev

Worst PER:

There are some surprising entrants here which shows that PER is not an infallible rating. 

  1. Taurean Prince: 8.8 
  2. Dillon Brooks, Jaden McDaniels: 9.4
  3. Keyonte George, Malik Beasley: 10.3
  4. Grant Williams: 10.6
  5. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: 10.7
  6. Luguentz Dort: 11.1
  7. Jeremy Sochan: 11.4
  8. Max Strus: 11.6
  9. Spencer Dinwiddie: 11.7
  10. Josh Hart: 11.8
  11. Harrison Barnes: 11.9
  12. Jordan Poole, Tim Hardaway Jr.: 12.0
  13. PJ Washington: 12.1
  14. Jaden Ivey: 12.4
  15. Corey Kispert: 12.8
  16. Jaime Jaquez Jr.: 12.9
  17. Brandon Miller: 13
  18. Saddiq Bey: 13.1
  19. Herb Jones: 13.2
  20. Buddy Hield, Dennis Schroder, Keegan Murray: 13.3

Most missed shots

You can’t make them all, and it’s not surprising that the NBA’s best scorers are among the leaders in this list.

  1. Jalen Brunson: 858
  2. Luka Doncic: 848
  3. Anthony Edwards: 840
  4. Deโ€™Aaron Fox: 829
  5. Stephen Curry: 795
  6. Dejounte Murray: 791
  7. Tyrese Maxey: 781
  8. Jalen Green: 770
  9. Paolo Banchero: 767
  10. Jayson Tatum: 754

Worst FG% with at least 100 shots

We decided to go ahead and see who had the worst shooting percentage in the league, this time using the qualifier of having at least 100 field goal attempts for the season.

  1. Rayan Rupert: 33.5% 161 FGA
  2. Jalen McDaniels: 34.4% 189 FGA
  3. Isaiah Livers: 34.5% 116 FGA
  4. Patty Mills: 35.1% 131 FGA
  5. Devonteโ€™ Graham: 35.2% 108 FGA
  6. Yuta Watanabe: 35.3% 116 FGA
  7. Chuma Okeke: 35.7% 112 FGA
  8. Evan Fournier: 35.7% 221 FGA
  9. Mike Muscala: 35.9% 156 FGA
  10. Alex Burks: 36.9% 569 FGA
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