July 14: Kennard has officially signed with the Suns, the team announced in a press release.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLuke\u2019s work ethic and commitment to his craft have ade him one of the most efficient three-point shooters in NBA history,\u201d Suns general manager Brian Gregory said in a statement. \u201cHis floor spacing, high basketball IQ, and connective play-making bring another dimension to our offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
June 30:\u00a0Luke Kennard<\/a> has agreed to a two-year, $13MM deal with the Suns, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania tweets<\/a>. The second year includes a player option.<\/p>\n The Suns were reportedly looking at<\/a> a number of veteran wings who could provide shooting. Kennard was one<\/a> of their primary targets with the Lakers also reportedly interested in retaining him.<\/p>\n Kennard finished the season with Los Angeles after being dealt by Atlanta. He appeared in a total of 78 games, averaging 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists per contest. His shooting numbers were eye-popping for a three-point specialist \u2014 53.3% overall from the field and a career-best 47.8% beyond the arc.<\/p>\n Kennard\u2019s career 44.2% three-point shooting ranks second all-time to Golden State coach Steve Kerr (45.4%) for players with at least 250 made threes. He has led the league in three-point percentage in three separate seasons.<\/p>\n According to cap expert Yossi Gozlan of The Third Apron (Twitter link<\/a>), Kennard could fit into the taxpayer mid-level exception if his number comes in a little below what Charania reported \u2014 a two-year deal using the taxpayer MLE would max out at $12.4MM. They could utilize the non-taxpayer mid-level if they get under the first apron, but that would require additional roster moves.<\/p>\n The Suns shot 36.1% on threes last season, placing them outside the top 10 in the league. With Grayson Allen<\/a> heading to Charlotte, the Suns needed another perimeter shooter and landed one of the best. Phoenix will be Kennard\u2019s sixth team in a career that began with Detroit in 2017.<\/p>\n Kennard, 30, projects to back up Jalen Green<\/a> and Devin Booker<\/a>\u00a0with his new team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 14: Kennard has officially signed with the Suns, the team announced in a press release. \u201cLuke\u2019s work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,12843,85],"class_list":["post-800600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-luke-kennard","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}