Former NBA All-Star Joining Atlanta Hawks Front-Office

Increasingly more retired NBA gamers have gotten head coaches and/or getting concerned with groups across the league in some capability.

Kyle Korver is the newest previous participant to take action, as he agreed to affix the Atlanta Hawks front-office on Tuesday, first reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

Korver, 41, retired following the 2019-20 season with the Milwaukee Bucks and joined Steve Nash’s teaching employees with the Brooklyn Nets as a participant improvement coach.

Enjoying 17 seasons within the NBA, Kyle Korver is most famously identified for being top-of-the-line three-point shooters in league historical past, as his 2,450 profession made threes ranks fifth all-time. For his profession, Korver shot 42.9% from three-point vary.

With the Nets, Korver had been seen behind the scenes a number of instances working with the staff’s stars, together with Ben Simmons and serving to him on his leap taking pictures mechanics.

Now, after only one yr in Brooklyn, Korver is becoming a member of the group he spent four-and-a-half seasons with, making the All-Star Sport with Atlanta throughout the 2014-15 season. As a member of the Hawks, Korver had among the greatest years of his profession, main the league in three-point taking pictures proportion three completely different seasons he was there and he helped lead the staff to the Japanese Convention Finals with a franchise file 60 wins throughout his All-Star season.

As a member of the Hawks, Kyle Korver performed in a complete of 332 video games, averaging 10.9 factors, 3.7 rebounds and taking pictures 45.2% from three-point vary.

Whereas he actual function is unknown right now, Korver joins a front-office run by staff president Travis Schlenk and former NBA expertise Landry Fields, who’s now the Hawks common supervisor.