About Joe Harris (basketball)
Joseph Malcolm Harris is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers, before being selected with the 33rd overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. He spent one-and-a-half seasons with the team before being traded and waived due to injury. He was signed by the Brooklyn Nets in 2016, and is one of three players to make 200 three-pointers in one season in the history of the Nets franchise. Harris led the NBA in three-point shooting accuracy in 2018–19 and repeated the feat in 2020–21. Also in 2021, Harris surpassed Dražen Petrović as the Nets' all-time leader in three-point field goal percentage and surpassed Jason Kidd as the Nets' all-time leader in three-point field goals made. Harris ranks fifth in NBA history for career three-point field goal percentage as of March 5, 2024. Harris played for the Detroit Pistons in his final season. In his junior year, he averaged 24.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.7 steals a game, and led the Mountain Goats to the Class 1A state tournament with a 24–6 record. In his senior year, Harris led his team to fifth place in the Class 1A state tournament after leading them to a 26–2 record. For the second straight year, Harris was named the AP Class 1A Player of the Year and selected to the Class 1A All-Tournament first team.
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