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Joe Harris (Source: NBA)
Joe Harris has retired from basketball after playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Brooklyn Nets, and Detroit Pistons for ten years. In the 2014 NBA draft, Harris, 32, was selected with the 33rd overall choice out of Virginia. He went on to establish himself as one of the top three-point shooters in the league. Harris averaged 10.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 made three-pointers, 1.6 assists, and 43.6 percent from beyond the arc in 504 regular-season games throughout his career.
Harris was sold to the Orlando Magic in 2016 after playing a little part in his first two seasons with the Cavaliers. He was later dismissed before joining the Nets. Harris would be a very successful player in Brooklyn for the following seven seasons, averaging 11.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.3 made three-pointers, and 1.7 assists. With an overall shooting percentage of 48.3 percent and a deep percentage of 44.0 percent, he was also one of the NBA's most effective players.
He had his finest seasons from 2018–19 through 2020–21, averaging 13.7–14.5 points per game on average. In 2020–21, he topped the NBA in three-point shooting percentage (.475), as well as in 2018–19. Winning the 2019 NBA Three-Point Contest is arguably Harris' most noteworthy career achievement. In the championship round, he defeated Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors 26–24, and he is still the only Nets player to have ever won the competition.
Joe Harris leaves the NBA as the fifth-most accurate three-point shooter
Before apparently deciding to retire, Harris' usage and output significantly declined during his final two seasons. Harris played just 20.6 minutes per game in 2022–23 despite appearing in 74 games for Brooklyn Nets the previous four seasons when he averaged 30 or more minutes. That season, he only scored 7.6 points on average per game.
Harris played in just 16 games for the Pistons last season, averaging 2.4 points in 10.6 minutes per game, after Brooklyn sent him to Detroit as a payroll dump. Harris leaves the NBA as the fifth-most accurate three-point shooter in history, behind only Steve Kerr, Hubert Davis, Luke Kennard, and Drazen Petrovic, despite his troubles in his final two seasons.