The NBA’s Most Accurate Shooters, With the Records Explained

DeAndre Jordan has the highest qualified NBA career field-goal percentage, at 67.34%. Mitchell Robinson holds the qualified single-season record, at 74.19% in 2019–20. Both are regular-season records, not playoff records. The career and season figures here cover NBA statistics through 2025–26. The distinction between a career record and a season record—and the minimum needed to qualify—is essential to interpreting the answer. Sources: career leaderboard and season leaderboard.

Choose career or single season to see the record, shot totals and qualification rule.

FG% Measures Makes, Not Points Per Attempt

Field-goal percentage is the share of a player’s field-goal attempts that go in. The formula is FG% = FGM ÷ FGA × 100. It includes both two-pointers and three-pointers, but excludes free throws. The NBA’s statistical glossary defines the shooting statistics used here.

That makes FG% a measure of conversion rate: how often a recorded field-goal attempt becomes a made basket. It does not distinguish a made dunk from a made three-pointer, even though those baskets produce different point totals. It also does not describe how difficult the attempts were or how much of the offense the player had to create.

The word qualified prevents tiny samples from being treated as major records. A player who goes 1-for-1 has a raw FG% of 100%, but that does not establish the highest qualified career percentage. Record tables apply minimums so that their leaders have accumulated a specified amount of shooting production.

Those minimums do not make every player’s offensive role comparable. They establish eligibility for the record, not a universal ranking of shooting skill. A qualified leader can still take a very different mix of shots from a perimeter scorer.

DeAndre Jordan Leads Qualified NBA Careers At 67.34%

The NBA’s published career qualification minimum is 2,000 field goals made, not 2,000 attempts. That distinction matters because taking enough shots is not sufficient: a player must have made enough baskets to meet the threshold. See the NBA statistical minimums.

The qualified career leaders in the supplied regular-season figures are:

Rank	Player	Career FG%
1	DeAndre Jordan	67.34%
2	Rudy Gobert	65.80%
3	Jarrett Allen	64.08%
4	Jakob Poeltl	63.60%
5	Montrezl Harrell	61.88%

Regular-season NBA totals through 2025–26, shown to two decimal places. Source: Basketball-Reference’s qualified NBA career leaderboard linked above.

Jordan’s percentage comes from 3,877 field goals made on 5,757 attempts. Dividing those totals produces 67.344%, which rounds to 67.34%. The NBA’s display rounds the same record to 67.3%. Those are different levels of display precision, not different records. The underlying totals appear in the NBA all-time totals table.

Career FG% Uses Combined Makes And Attempts

A career percentage is calculated from all career makes divided by all career attempts. It is not the simple average of a player’s individual season percentages.

That distinction keeps a season with few attempts from receiving the same influence as a season with many attempts. Each attempt contributes to the career denominator, and each make contributes to the numerator. Seasons with more attempts therefore have more influence on the final career rate.

When checking Jordan’s record, the most direct calculation is to use his career shot totals. Averaging the percentages displayed on separate season rows can give a different answer, especially if those rows have already been rounded. The combined totals avoid both the unequal-sample problem and the extra rounding introduced by averaging displayed rates.

A Higher Raw Percentage May Not Qualify

The unfiltered NBA all-time table includes players above Jordan who have not reached the career minimum. Daniel Gafford, for example, has 1,660 makes on 2,364 attempts, or about 70.2%, in the supplied figures. His percentage is higher than Jordan’s, but his makes remain below the 2,000 required for the qualified career record.

Gafford has exceeded 2,000 attempts. That does not resolve the qualification issue, because the rule is stated in makes. Confusing attempts with makes would change which players appear eligible and could lead to the wrong record holder.

The correct description is therefore not that nobody has a raw career percentage above Jordan. It is that Jordan leads the qualified NBA career leaderboard. A raw leaderboard and a qualified record table answer different questions, even when both use the same FG% formula.

Mitchell Robinson Holds The Season Record At 74.19%

Robinson made 253 of 341 field-goal attempts for the Knicks in 2019–20, producing a 74.19% rate. The record is commonly displayed as 74.2%. The NBA’s official Robinson biography confirms the record and its underlying shot totals.

He surpassed Wilt Chamberlain’s 426-for-586 season in 1972–73, which produced a 72.70% field-goal percentage. Robinson’s rate was higher, while Chamberlain made more baskets and attempted more shots.

Player	Season	FGM/FGA	FG%
Mitchell Robinson	2019–20	253/341	74.19%
Wilt Chamberlain	1972–73	426/586	72.70%

The distinction between percentage and volume is visible directly in those totals. Robinson holds the percentage record because a greater share of his attempts went in. Chamberlain’s larger number of makes does not give him the percentage record, just as Robinson’s higher percentage does not mean he produced more field goals.

Robinson averaged 5.6 field-goal attempts and 9.7 points in 61 appearances during the record season, according to the 2019–20 Knicks statistics. Those figures help define the task behind the record: exceptionally accurate shooting on a relatively limited number of attempts, rather than a percentage achieved while carrying a high-volume scoring offense.

Robinson Qualified Under Shortened-Season Requirements

For a modern, standard 82-game season, the NBA lists 300 field goals made as the qualification minimum. Robinson’s 253 makes fall below that unadjusted number, but his record came in the shortened 2019–20 season. The NBA explicitly confirms that he qualified.

Basketball-Reference’s historical qualification requirements also specify prorating shooting totals to an 82-game season for 2019–20. Robinson should therefore not be excluded by applying the full-season cutoff without its shortened-season adjustment.

The supplied material does not give the exact adjusted numerical cutoff. It does establish both the prorating provision and Robinson’s official qualification. There is no need to invent a threshold to explain why his 253 makes were eligible.

This is a case where the season attached to the record changes how a rule must be read. The standard modern minimum explains the usual requirement; it does not, by itself, establish the requirement for every historical or shortened season. Qualification must match the season being evaluated.

A Season Record Is Not A Career Record

Robinson’s 74.19% describes his shooting in one season. Jordan’s 67.34% describes his combined career shooting. Putting the percentages side by side is useful, but they are not competing entries in the same category.

A season record captures an especially accurate season that meets its eligibility rule. A career record combines the player’s production across seasons and applies the career minimum. Robinson’s higher single-season percentage does not displace Jordan from the career leaderboard.

The same separation applies to postseason statistics. These figures establish regular-season records only. They should not be presented as playoff records or as percentages combining regular-season and playoff attempts.

Highest FG% Does Not Establish The Best Jump Shooter

Raw FG% gives every made field goal the same credit in its numerator. A two-pointer counts as one make, and a three-pointer also counts as one make. The additional point from the three-pointer does not increase FG%.

Consider the draft’s hypothetical 10-shot comparison. A player who makes six two-pointers shoots 60% and produces 12 points. A player who makes four three-pointers shoots 40% and also produces 12 points. The first player has the higher FG%, but neither produces more points from those field-goal attempts.

Shot Mix	Makes/Attempts	FG%	Points
All two-pointers	6/10	60%	12
All three-pointers	4/10	40%	12

This example explains why FG% alone is an incomplete comparison across shot types. A lower percentage can produce the same scoring return when the successful attempts are worth more points. Conversely, a high percentage does not reveal whether a player is converting difficult jump shots or finishing chances close to the basket.

eFG% Accounts For Three-Point Value

Effective field-goal percentage, or eFG%, accounts for the additional value of made three-pointers. Both players in the example have a 60% eFG%, reflecting their equal points from the same number of field-goal attempts.

That makes eFG% more useful than raw FG% when the comparison concerns scoring efficiency from field goals across different shot mixes. It still does not incorporate free throws, and it does not tell you how difficult the shots were to create.

True shooting percentage, or TS%, also incorporates free throws. It addresses a broader scoring-efficiency question than FG%, which excludes them entirely. These measures are defined in the NBA glossary linked above, but neither should be silently substituted into a field-goal-percentage record table.

Jordan’s and Robinson’s records are FG% records. Using another metric may help evaluate their scoring efficiency, but it answers a different question from identifying who converted the highest share of qualified field-goal attempts.

Read The Percentage Alongside Role And Volume

For a comparison between players, the shot totals are the first useful companion to the percentage. Robinson’s 341 attempts and Chamberlain’s 586 attempts show the volume behind their respective season rates. Jordan’s career totals show the much larger accumulated sample behind his career record.

Next, consider where the shots come from and how much offensive responsibility the player carries. Finishing an opportunity created by a teammate and creating a contested shot are different tasks, even though the box score records each as a field-goal attempt. FG% alone does not separate those responsibilities.

Pace affects the opportunities available to accumulate attempts, but it does not directly enter the FG% formula. The percentage remains makes divided by attempts. That is why a pace discussion can add context to volume without changing the calculation of the shooting rate itself.

For interpreting the box-score labels, see FG, FGM, FGA and FG%. For the record answer, keep the categories intact: Jordan leads qualified NBA careers at 67.34%; Robinson holds the qualified single-season mark at 74.19%. Their percentages establish conversion records, not a complete ranking of jump shooting, shot creation or overall scoring efficiency.