On a NBA court why is the bottom half of the free throw circle a series of line segments while the top half is a solid line?

Its line segments because it means nothing, it is not used for anything, the top half indicated where the player can take a free throw from, T-Mac used to take his free throws from the top of the circle, instead from the free throw line.

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