3 of the best role players the Utah Jazz have had in the last 10 years

Kyle Korver

When we talk about role players, few guys got shafted worse by the league than Kyle Korver. A genuine 20-point scorer if someone would let him shoot more, Korver spent two different stints with the Jazz. One in the mid-to-late 2000s’, where he shot over 50% from three in the 2009-2010 season.

But we’re not looking at that era, where the Jazz only gave him two shots per game. Talk about mismanagement. One of the greatest shooters the game ever had, only getting two shots per game.

Despite his misuse, he’d end up coming back to the Jazz, at the same time Jae Crowder arrived. Korver and Crowder both arrived from the Cavs, but neither man played with one another for Cleveland before getting dealt to Utah.

Korver was never overly athletic, so being 37 wasn’t an issue at all. He wasn’t hitting 50% from three anymore, but Korver was still hitting 38% from behind the arc and averaged 9.1 points per game in only 20 minutes of action. Not bad for an old man.

Korver’s second stint with the Jazz was short, he’d go on to join Milwaukee for the next and what would end up being his last, season in the NBA. Korver wasn’t much else on the court besides a true shooter, but even with the likes of Steph Curry in the NBA at the same time, there weren’t many, and besides Curry, any player who was as lethal from three-point as Korver.

If he were born a few years later, he may have been well more than just a one-time All-Star.