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    19 Feb Getting to Know Joe Harris

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    Brooklyn Nets forward Joe Harris edged out Stephen Curry to win the 2019 NBA Three-Point Contest. Harris scored 26 points in the final round to follow up his 25 points in the first round.

    Born: September 6, 1991 (age 27) in Chelan, Washington

    Height: 6 ft 6 in

    College: Virginia (2010–2014)

    NBA draft: 2014 / Round: 2 / Pick: 33rd overall

    Selected by:

    the Cleveland Cavaliers

    This is clearly the best stretch of your career right now. What’s been clicking? I think it’s just the fact that I have a few years of experience playing here in Brooklyn in Coach Atkinson’s system. I feel more comfortable. Knowing your role and what is expected of you gives you a lot of confidence to go out and play aggressively. You’re not really thinking; you’re just going out and playing. That’s the best way to play basketball.

    What do you like most about your head coach Kenny Atkinson? I’d say his philosophy. He instills a lot of confidence in everybody that plays. He gives guys a lot of freedom to play their game. For me, being a shooter, he instills the confidence in me to be aggressive and to hunt shots. If I’m not aggressive and I’m not hunting shots, not taking the shots I’m supposed to be taking, then odds are I’m probably not going to play. If you have a coach that’s like that, it benefits everybody. It allows us to play our game, and play free and play loose.

    How do you like playing in Brooklyn? At first, it was overwhelming, for sure. New York is a city like no other. There’s so much stuff going on and so many people, but I’ve really started enjoying it. I really like living here. It’s fun. Just the convenience of everything – being able to walk everywhere. I think the fact that I’m a bit of a foodie has really helped my transition. There are so many good restaurants here. And what’s cool, too, is that there are a lot of people from UVA who I went to school with who are working here. When I was in Cleveland, there weren’t a lot of UVA graduates hurrying to get to Cleveland, Ohio. These last few years have been great in terms of getting to see a lot of the friends I made while I was at Virginia.