Kyle Korver mulled the idea of retirement during the offseason before deciding to return for his 16th season in the NBA, reports Joe Vardon of The Athletic (Twitter link). Korver is entering the second year of his three-year deal with the Cavaliers.
While a Korver retirement decision this summer may have been overshadowed to some extent by Manu Ginobili opting to call it a career, Korver has had a long, successful NBA career in his own right. An All-Star in 2015, the 37-year-old sharpshooter has appeared in more than 1,100 regular season contests for the Sixers, Jazz, Bulls, Hawks, and Cavaliers. For his career, he has posted 9.9 PPG on .444/.431/.881 shooting.
Korver, who re-upped with Cleveland in 2017, will earn $7.56MM for the coming season. He’s on the Cavaliers’ books for $7.5MM in 2019/20, but only $3.44MM of that figure is fully guaranteed, meaning he could become a cap casualty next summer if his production dips this season. However, if he’s playing well this year and the Cavs aren’t in contention, he could become a prime trade candidate at the deadline.
#Lakers? Could he be LeBron’s new James Jones?
From what I’ve heard he is pretty happy in Cleveland
Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon has joined The Athletic.
Send the man to a franchise with hope. Spurs, Warriors, Rockets, Sixers. I cant see him on the Celtics, too much talent dont see where he gets minutes. The other teams can get him at least 15 meaningful minutes.
Korver and JR Smith to Wolves for Butler. Works in Trade Machine, but as everyone knows, I distrust the machines as they are plotting against us all.
They don’t get along with each other, too, which is almost worse. When machines start their shakeout war humans will be caught in the crossfire. Anyway not enough for Butler.
Thibs and JR Smith in the same team might make the universe implode.
Korver almost hit 50% on 3s in 2015 and generally had good defensive numbers throughout his career– until recently. It seems like he could be moved to the 3 to help his D. For some reason though, when he battles for position inside, refs call fouls on him. ARGH!
There isn’t a true 3 on the roster, so the Cavs will necessarily be going three guards, so Korver (and Osman & Hood) can find minutes covering 3s. Hopefully Korver will work on getting away with the usual contact inside & get well over 20′.
Korver is the man. The Nets drafted him and traded him for a fax machine. Seriously.