The NBA season hasn't started yet, but somehow the Memphis Grizzlies have already been hit with the injury bug. After avoiding a serious Ja Morant injury last week, the team has now lost Luke Kennard for an unspecified period of time.
For the past few seasons, Luke Kennard has quietly been one of the best three-point shooters in the NBA. During his last two years with the Memphis Grizzlies, he's averaged 48.3% from deep on six attempts a game.
The Memphis Grizzlies recently announced the re-signing of sharpshooting guard Luke Kennard, but the contract details were not released by the team. "The Memphis Grizzlies today announced the team re-signed wing Luke Kennard," the Grizzlies wrote in their announcement.
The Memphis Grizzlies missed the playoffs last season after consecutive second seed finishes in the Western Conference. That said, injuries were the primary reason Memphis was not in the postseason.
There won’t be a change of scenery for former Detroit Pistons sharpshooter Luke Kennard. Although Kennard hit the free agency market with a chance to find a new team once again, the veteran is set to return to the Memphis Grizzlies.
In an official announcement on Wednesday, the Memphis Grizzlies shared that the team had re-signed sharpshooting guard Luke Kennard in NBA free agency.
Last week, former Duke basketball guards Tyus Jones and Luke Kennard were among the top five unsigned free agents in the NBA. But Jones, a full-time starter for the Washington Wizards last season, agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal with the Phoenix Suns over the weekend.
The Houston Rockets will play in the league's most competitive division next season. Under second-year coach Ime Udoka, the Rockets will attempt to continue their development.
The Memphis Grizzlies have enjoyed a largely quiet and serene offseason. Their move to draft two-time Naismith award winner Zach Edey garnered a lot of headlines, but they haven’t done much outside of that.
As they look to return to the NBA Playoffs, the Memphis Grizzlies have re-signed free agent 3-point specialist Luke Kennard, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Memphis Grizzlies are running it back with three-point wizard Luke Kennard.
On Friday, the Grizzlies and Brooklyn Nets agreed to a trade that sent Ziaire Williams to Brooklyn, with Mamadi Diakite coming to Memphis. That deal saved the Grizzlies just under $4M in cap space.
Earlier today, the Memphis Grizzlies made a trade that sent small forward Ziaire Williams to the Brooklyn Nets. Though the Grizzlies received Mamadi Diakite in return, the trade opens up the room to bring another player back to the team.
The Memphis Grizzlies recently declined Luke Kennard’s $14.8M team option, but the expectation has been that the two sides will reach an agreement on a new contract.
Here are the five best remaining free agents after two weeks of activity.
Luke Kennard is one of the best shooters in the NBA that very few people talk about. After a very under-the-radar season with the Memphis Grizzlies last season, the Grizzlies declined Kennard's $14.8 million player option.
The Memphis Grizzlies declined Luke Kennard's $14.8 million option for next season, ESPN reported Saturday. The decision makes Kennard a free agent, though it is possible the shooting guard and the Grizzlies could work out a new deal.
The Grizzlies did not exercise Luke Kennard‘s $14.8M team option for 2024-25 prior to Saturday’s deadline.
Luke Kennard is coming off his seventh season in the NBA and his second for the Memphis Grizzlies. The former Duke star finished the regular season with averages of 11.0 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per contest while shooting 44.8% from the field and 45.0% from the three-point range in 39 games.
The Houston Rockets could use some oomph in the 3-point shooting department. As a team, the Rockets shoot just a smidge above 35 percent, good enough for the 27th-best clip in the NBA.
Grizzlies shooting guard Luke Kennard, who has been sidelined since November 14 with a left knee bone bruise, is nearing his return to the 5-14 club.
Clippers shooting guard Luke Kennard leads the NBA in 3-point percentage at a career-high clip of .489. But he’s averaging just 4.2 attempts per game and is tied for 106th in 3-point attempts.
You always have to keep your head on a swivel during the NBA offseason, as Ross can certainly attest to.
It's a bit of a startling development considering Kennard is coming off a season in which he shot 44.9 percent from three (which led the league) for a dependable 11.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.
A career 42.5% shooter from distance, Kennard converted on a career-best and league-high 44.9% of his three-point attempts this season.
According to ESPN Stats and Info, it's the second-largest comeback in the play-by-play era (since 1996), behind only a 36-point comeback that the Utah Jazz pulled off in 1996.
Montrezl Harrell certainly seems to find the latest move by his former team to be pretty funny.
He’ll be eligible for a rookie scale extension when this season ends.
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