Isaiah Joe compiled a list of career-highs in 2024-25.
Editor’s note: As an annual end-of-season exercise, The Oklahoman publishes a series of report cards on each of the Thunder’s main roster players. Grades will be curved relative to role and expectations. Next up: Isaiah Joe.
Isaiah Joe compiled a list of career-highs in 2024-25.
Starts: 16
Minutes: 21.7
Field-goal attempts: 7.9
3-point attempts: 6.3
Points: 10.2
Rebounds: 2.6
Assists: 1.6
Career-best marks in each of those seven categories. And his 3-point percentage, the number we most associate with Joe, was 41.2% — just shy of his career-high 41.6% from the year prior.
Joe had an uneven playoffs — although you can’t tell from his top-line numbers — but it was an all-around fabulous campaign for the flamethrower from Fort Smith, Arkansas.
His $12.4 million salary was another career-high. Joe’s contract descends to $11.3 million next season with an $11.3 million team option in 2027-28.
Philadelphia waived Joe before the 2022-23 season. Sam Presti and Co. scooped him up, and Joe has been a fixture in Oklahoma City ever since.
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Isaiah Joe by the numbers
24th: Joe ranked 24th in the NBA in 3-point percentage (41.2%). Joe shot 3-pointers at a career-high volume of 6.3 attempts per game, up from 4.5 the season prior. He has shot north of 40% from 3-point range in each of his three seasons with the Thunder.
41.1%: Joe’s 3-point percentage in the playoffs was only a tick behind his regular-season mark. He went 23-of-56 from 3-point range in the postseason. Joe shot 8-of-13 from three in the NBA Finals, including a 3-of-4 outing in Game 6.
500: Joe has made 500 career 3-pointers with the Thunder. Only Kevin Durant (1,084), Russell Westbrook (922), Lu Dort (734), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (563) and Paul George (536) have made more.
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We think of Joe as a finished product given his defined skill set, but he just turned 26. There’s still time for Joe to get stronger, which — as long as that doesn’t alter his silky jumper — could really help him on the defensive end. Joe competes defensively, but on a team filled with plus-plus defenders, he’s a player teams tried to pick on in the playoffs.
Isaiah Joe grade: A-
Joe turned in the best regular season of his career, but we’ll ding him a bit for falling out of favor in the Finals. Joe had DNPs (coach’s decision) in Games 5 and 7. And although his surface-level 3-point numbers in the playoffs look great, a bulk of his 3-pointers came in blowouts. He was 4-of-4 in Game 2 against Denver, which the Thunder won by 43. And 3-of-3 in Game 5 against Minnesota, a 30-point Thunder win.
Thunder report card schedule
In his championship parade address, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt announced that Thunder chairman Clay Bennett, general manager Sam Presti, coach Mark Daigneault and every Thunder player would be honored with their own official day in Oklahoma City.
We’re following Holt’s schedule, publishing each player’s report card on their respective day.
July 18: Isaiah Joe
July 21: Aaron Wiggins
July 22: Cason Wallace
July 23: Isaiah Hartenstein
July 24: Alex Caruso
July 25: Lu Dort
July 28: Chet Holmgren
July 29: Jalen Williams
July 30: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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