Kent Bazemore Comments on Potentially Returning to Hawks, Improving His Game

Atlanta Hawks forward Kent Bazemore saw his first season in which he was a full-time starter in the NBA come to an end when the Cleveland Cavaliers swept his team in the second round of the playoffs.   

It was an unceremonious end to the 26-year-old’s best season in the league in which he averaged 11.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. He stepped in well for DeMarre Carroll, who signed a four-year, $60 million deal with the Toronto Raptors before the season began.

But it could also be the end of Bazemore’s tenure in Atlanta, as he is set to hit unrestricted free agency and is expected to garner plenty of interest and bigger figures than the two-year, $4 million deal that he just finished up, via Spotrac.  

But if he had it his way, he wouldn’t want to go anywhere else as he told Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday:

I would love to return here. I think the past two years I’ve taken a tremendous leap. Not only my professional year …

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