LaMarcus Aldridge is the prized NBA free agent of this summer's class for good reason.
The soon-to-be 30-year-old power forward has enjoyed four straight All-Star Game selections and is coming off a 2014-15 season, in which he averaged a career-high 23.4 points with 10.2 rebounds per game for the Portland Trail Blazers.
As if his value on the free agent market wasn't high enough, ESPN Stats & Info dug up this unique fact, sliding Aldridge in the company of Hall of Famer and arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.
Since the inclusion of the NBA's three-point line in the 1979-80 season, Jordan and Aldridge are the only players to ever lead the league in two-point field-goal attempts during three straight seasons. Jordan did so in 1995-97 and 1989-92 (four seasons) and Aldridge has led the NBA in each of the past three seasons.
At 6-11, 240 pounds, Aldridge has been one of the best big men in the league, sporting a solid career field-goal percentage of 48.5. His field-goal attempts and made percentage show that Aldridge sticks to his hot spots in the post and paint and doesn't venture outside of them, so much so that he owns a career three-point attempts average of 0.3 long-range shots per game. That means it's a rarity to ever see him hoist a shot beyond the arc.
Basically, Aldridge knows what he's good at and doesn't try to be something he's not, resulting in what has been one of the more efficient players the NBA has ever seen. As a shooting guard, Jordan had a lifetime 49.7 field-goal percentage and averaged just 1.7 three-point attempts over the course of his legendary 15-year career.
Jordan and Aldridge—two of a kind.
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