How many NBA players were left-handed?
How many NBA players were left-handed?
I used Stathead and Basketball-Reference to piece together data on all players in the NBA who played at least 500 minutes in the 2021-2022 season. Surprisingly, sinistral players are just as rare in the NBA as in the world! Only 33 of the 374 qualifying players shot primarily left-handed, or 9%.
Is LeBron right or left-handed?
I’m pretty much a left-hand guy. I don’t take many of those shots, but I’m capable of making those shots. I work on my craft. I work on both hands.”
How rare is a left hander?
-Counting how many people are left-handed is more difficult than it looks, because of variations in preference and skill from task to task and because of left-handers having been forced to write with their right hand, but the best estimate we have is that roughly 10% of the world population is left-handed.
Why is it rare to be left-handed?
In fact, one of the more unusual hypotheses to explain the rarity of left-handedness is that a genetic mutation in our distant past caused the language centres of the human brain to shift to the left hemisphere, effectively causing right-handedness to dominate, Alasdair Wilkins explains for io9 back in 2011.
