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Kevin Durant inspired Nets' Hollis-Jefferson's free-throw shimmy

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Rondae Hollis-Jefferson loves getting his shimmy on at the charity stripe.

Rondae loves to shimmy

It's a fairly unique routine that very few players would be confident enough to attempt, but that hasn't stopped the 20-year-old Arizona alumnus from giving it a go.

Hollis-Jefferson told Jessica Camerato of Basketball Insiders that his "shimmy" was influenced by Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant.

"I was watching KD do his little shoulder shimmy one day and I was like, 'Let me try this,' because I saw when he did it, it relaxes his shoulders," Hollis-Jefferson said. "Pretty much I took it, added some 'Rondae' to it, and it just became a thing.

"I think everything basketball-wise is muscle memory. Once you get something down pat and it works from you, it becomes a comfortable thing and it relaxes you. The numbers prove it."

Hollis-Jefferson is shooting 66.7 percent at the free-throw line through four games at the Las Vegas Summer League, which is four percentage points less than the 70.7 percent he shot during his final year with the Wildcats.

Back to the drawing board, perhaps?

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