Spanish guard guard José Calderón accepts an award for having the best free throw percentage in NBA history for single-season from Bryan Colangelo, the Toronto Raptors General Manager.

Calderón was presented with the award prior to the Raptors’ opening game vs. Cleveland Cavaliers in Toronto on October 28, 2009 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Calderón hit 87 straight free-throws before finally missing; ten short of the NBA record held by Michael Williams.  However, Calderón hit 98.1% of his free-throws last season, 151-154, an NBA record for single-season free-throw percentage.

The Raptors defeated the newly-minted Shaq-LeBron union 101-91. Oddly, Calderón would miss his final two free-throws in the game, going 3-5 from the line – and coach Jay Triano would take the blame for his two missed.

“I left him in too long because I’m trying to find a way to keep two of (Bosh, Bargnani, Turkoglu and Calderon) on the floor at all times. I’ll take credit for his two missed free throws because he had no legs. I gassed him out. Our coaches were saying we had to get him out but I didn’t want to go with four subs at that point in the game.”