According to The Athletic and Stadium’s Shams Charania, Joe Harris will retire from basketball after a 10-year NBA career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Brooklyn Nets and Detroit Pistons.
“Joe Harris has retired from basketball after 10 seasons in the NBA. Harris played 504 games with the Nets, Cavaliers and Pistons. He is a career 3-point shooter who made 43.6% of his shots and won the 3-Point Contest at the 2019 All-Star Weekend.”
The 32-year-old, who spent last season with the Detroit Pistons, was a second-round pick by the Cavaliers in the 2014 draft and spent the first two seasons of his career in Cleveland.
The 33rd overall pick, Harris was one of the league’s leading three-point shooters, shooting 43.6 percent from three-point range. In 504 regular season games, Harris averaged 10.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 three-pointers made and 1.6 assists while shooting 47.9 percent from the field.
At the end of his Cleveland career, the shooter had played in 56 games over two years, averaging just 2.6 points, 44% three-point shooting and 10.6 minutes per game. Harris was traded to the Orlando Magic in 2016 after undergoing season-ending surgery on his right foot, then was quickly waived by the Florida team and signed with the Nets as a free agent.
During his time in Brooklyn, Harris established himself as a strong outside shooter, averaging 11.6 points while shooting 48% from the field and 44% from deep during his seven years with the Nets.
One of the most efficient shooters, Harris participated in the NBA Three-Point Contest during All-Star Weekend in 2019. He defeated Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry 26-24 in the final round to become the only Nets player to win the event.
The veteran appeared in just 16 games in his final NBA season with the Pistons, a contrast to 74 games he played in the previous season with Brooklyn.
The 6-foot-6 athlete has been plagued by health issues in recent years, and a decline in usage and performance over his final two seasons likely prompted Harris to decide to retire.
Harris retired as the fifth most accurate three-point shooter in NBA history, behind Steve Kerr, Hubert Davis, Luke Kennard and Drazen Petrovic.