The Markelle Fultz free-throw saga takes another wacky turn

Listen, I don’t want to get into this anymore than you do, but I simply cannot stand by and bare witness to this biomechanical abomination any longer.

We need to have another conversation about that Markelle Fultz free-throw stroke. The former first-overall pick who literally cannot shoot from the stripe pulled out a new one on Friday against the Utah Jazz, orchestrating some type of hot potato-esque routine before launching a cinder block at the rim.

I get it — when you struggle you have to try something knew, but juggling the rock before heaving up a prayer doesn’t seem, from the outside, to be an effective strategy for improving anything.

This heinous free-throw comes just days after Fultz went viral for all the wrong reasons after he appears to pump fake a foul shot against the Miami heat on Monday — a valiant attempt, but a very ugly result:

I’m no NBA-caliber skills coach, as you probably can tell, but these types of clown shots would never see the light of day in any fair and just world.

How does a former No. 1 pick shoot like this? Has it always been this way? Why has no one fixed him yet? What inspired his recent tragic attempts at self-correction? I have no solutions, I have no answers — I have only more questions.

I guess when you’re converting less than 60 percent from the line, anything is fair game.

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