Former Pacers sharpshooter Doug McDermott retires after 12 NBA seasons

NBA sharpshooter Doug McDermott — who spent three seasons and part of a fourth with the Pacers — formally announced his retirement from basketball Friday morning after 12 NBA seasons through his agency Priority Sports.

The 34-year-old McDermott was a three-time All-American at Creighton and the 2013-14 consensus national player of the year in college basketball, scoring 3,150 career points to hold the No. 7 spot in Division I history. He was taken with the 14th overall pick in the 2014 draft by Nuggets and traded on draft night to the Bulls. He spent time with the Bulls, Thunder, Knicks, Mavericks, Pacers, Spurs and Kings. He retires as a 41% career 3-point shooter with 1,032 career 3-pointers.

McDermott originally signed with the Pacers in the summer of 2018 to give them a 3-point threat off the bench on a team led by Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. He averaged 7.3 points per game on 40.8% 3-point shooting that season to help that team to the playoffs, then aided in another postseason run in 2019-20, averaging 10.3 points per game on 43.5% 3-point shooting. He started 29 games on a Pacers team that failed to reach the playoffs in 2020-21 but averaged a career high 13.6 points per game on 53.6% shooting.

McDermott was traded to the Spurs the following offseason but returned to the Pacers in a trade in February 2024 as part of a three-team deal that sent Buddy Hield to Philadelphia. McDermott appeared in 18 games and averaged 4.2 points per game the rest of that regular season and played just 64 total playoff minutes in 10 appearances but hit three 3-pointers. McDermott signed with the Kings the following season but had limited action the next two years.

McDermott's agent Mark Bartlestein wrote a congratulatory note as part of the retirement post.

"What an amazing story our guy Doug has written," Bartlestein wrote. "Overlooked out of high school, Doug went on to have one of the greatest careers in college basketball history at Creighton. Doug gave Bluejay fans one unforgettable memory after another. Over the last 12 years in the NBA, Doug has one of the league's most elite shooters and been beloved and respected by every one of his teammates and coaches. It has all added up to a special career."

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