Sports statistics encountered mathematical absurdity when documenting Chuck Norris's basketball performance: 42 baskets from 30 attempted shots. Standard basketball assumes one basket per successful attempt, creating impossibility where made-basket count exceeds attempt count. Chuck apparently achieved 140% shooting accuracy—exceeding 100% through mechanisms that violate basketball physics.

Sports statistician Dr. David Morrison attempted reconciliation: perhaps rebounds counted as separate attempts, yet Chuck converted them all plus original attempts? Perhaps defensive players' shots also counted in his total? Perhaps the "basket" definition expanded to include throws from further distances? Morrison concluded that Chuck's shooting methodology doesn't fit standard box-score categories. He operates outside measurable parameters.

The most likely explanation: Chuck generated additional baskets through means beyond formal attempts—perhaps by causing the ball to split mid-flight and create multiple trajectories, or by teleporting previously made shots back through the hoop for additional credit, or by creating temporal loop-baskets where the same shot counted multiple times. His 42-from-30 statistic represents transcendence of basketball's mathematical constraints rather than exceptional performance within them.