{"id":817282,"date":"2026-08-18T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817282\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:30:14","slug":"assistant-gm-kyle-korver-parts-ways-with-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817282\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant GM Kyle Korver Parts Ways With Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7:55 pm:\u00a0President of basketball operations Onsi Saleh confirms Korver has stepped down from his position, per Williams (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WilliamsLaurenL\/status\/2089515625404137485\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kyle-Korver-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-487899 size-medium\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle\u2019s passion for the Hawks organization, culture building, and both people and player development have tremendously benefited our program and we are grateful,\u201d Saleh said in a statement. \u201cKyle and his family will always be a part of the Hawks family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7:14pm: Former NBA sharpshooter Kyle Korver, who has been a member of the Hawks\u2018 front office for the past four years, is leaving the organization, according to Marc Stein of The Stein Line (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2089493914445136260\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The split is an amicable one, as Stein hears Atlanta\u2019s assistant general manager is parting ways with team on \u201cgood terms.\u201d Korver is excited for his \u201cnext post-playing chapter,\u201d Stein adds.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Rowland of Locked On Hawks (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BTRowland\/status\/2089494728412729490\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) and Lauren L. Williams of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution confirm the news, with Williams stating (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WilliamsLaurenL\/status\/2089495004620243048\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>) that the 45-year-old is looking forward to \u201cspending more time with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Korver became an executive with the Hawks in the summer of 2022, initially holding the title of director of player affairs and development. He was quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2023\/01\/hawks-to-promote-kyle-korver-to-assistant-gm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">promoted<\/a> to assistant GM in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Korver was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/korver-dunleavy-fields-reportedly-among-bulls-gm-targets.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> among the candidates the Bulls considered when they were searching for a new head of basketball operations this offseason, a job that went to Bryson Graham, who spent the 2024\/25 campaign as Korver\u2019s colleague in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>After being selected 51st overall in the 2003 draft out of Creighton, Korver spent the following 17 seasons playing in the NBA, making his lone All-Star appearance in 2014\/15 as a Hawk. Korver was player development assistant on the Nets\u2019 coaching staff in 2021\/22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7:55 pm:\u00a0President of basketball operations Onsi Saleh confirms Korver has stepped down from his position, per Williams (Twitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[25176,355,99],"class_list":["post-817282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-kyle-korver","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}