Jason Kapono

Retired • Retired after 2014 season • SF • 9 years of NBA experience

Height6'8

Born4th February 1981 (age 45)

Weight215 lbs

Nationality🇺🇸USA

NBA Draft31st pick, 2003

Pre-draft teamUCLA

HandRight

Agentn/a

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Stats

9 seasons

Year	League	Team	G	GS	MPG	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/G
2003-04	NBA	Cleveland Cavaliers	41	3	10.4	1.3	3.1	40.3%	0.5	1.1	47.7%	0.8	2.1	36.5%	.484	0.5	0.6	83.3%	0.5	0.9	1.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.5	1.0	3.5
2004-05	NBA	Charlotte Bobcats	81	14	18.4	3.3	8.3	40.1%	1.0	2.4	41.2%	2.3	5.9	39.6%	.461	0.9	1.0	82.4%	0.4	1.6	2.0	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.6	1.6	8.5
2005-06	NBA	Miami Heat	51	2	13.0	1.5	3.5	44.6%	0.4	1.0	39.6%	1.1	2.4	46.8%	.506	0.5	0.6	84.8%	0.2	1.2	1.4	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.4	1.7	4.1
2006-07	NBA	Miami Heat	67	35	26.4	4.1	8.4	49.4%	1.6	3.1	51.4%	2.5	5.3	48.2%	.590	1.0	1.1	89.2%	0.4	2.3	2.7	1.2	0.6	0.0	1.0	2.0	10.9
2007-08	NBA	Toronto Raptors	81	7	18.9	3.0	6.1	48.8%	0.7	1.5	48.3%	2.3	4.7	48.9%	.545	0.5	0.5	86.0%	0.4	1.1	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.0	0.7	1.6	7.2
2008-09	NBA	Toronto Raptors	80	12	22.9	3.3	7.6	43.2%	1.2	2.9	42.8%	2.0	4.7	43.5%	.513	0.4	0.5	81.0%	0.3	1.7	2.0	1.3	0.3	0.0	0.9	1.8	8.2
2009-10	NBA	Philadelphia 76ers	57	12	17.1	2.2	5.3	41.9%	1.1	3.0	36.8%	1.1	2.3	48.5%	.523	0.2	0.3	60.0%	0.2	0.9	1.2	0.7	0.4	0.1	0.6	1.4	5.7
2010-11	NBA	Philadelphia 76ers	24	2	4.7	0.3	1.2	25.0%	0.0	0.3	12.5%	0.3	0.8	30.0%	.268	0.0	0.1	50.0%	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.7
2011-12	NBA	L.A. Lakers	27	0	10.0	0.8	2.0	38.2%	0.3	1.0	29.6%	0.5	1.0	46.4%	.455	0.1	0.1	100.0%	0.1	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.8	2.0

Teams

10 entries

Date	Team
1999 - 2003	UCLA (NCAA)
July 2003 - June 2004	Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA)
June 2004 - June 2005	Charlotte Bobcats (NBA)
September 2005 - June 2007	Miami Heat (NBA)
July 2007 - June 2009	Toronto Raptors (NBA)
June 2009 - June 2011	Philadelphia 76ers (NBA)
December 2011 - March 2012	L.A. Lakers (NBA)
March 2012	Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA)
November 2012 - March 2013	Panathinaikos (Greece)
October 2014	Golden State Warriors (NBA)

Transactions

15 entries

Date	League	Transaction
2003 NBA Draft	NBA	Drafted 31st overall by Cleveland.
30th July, 2003	NBA	Signed a guaranteed two year minimum salary contract with Cleveland.
22nd June, 2004	NBA	Selected by Charlotte in the 2004 NBA Expansion Draft.
29th September, 2005	NBA	Signed a partially guaranteed two year, $2,288,000 offer sheet with Miami.
3rd October, 2005	NBA	Charlotte declined to match Miami's offer sheet.
11th July, 2007	NBA	Signed a four year, $23,994,880 contract with Toronto. Included player option for 2010/11.
9th June, 2009	NBA	Traded by Toronto to Philadelphia in exchange for Reggie Evans.
4th June, 2010	NBA	Exercised 2010/11 player option.
9th December, 2011	NBA	Signed a guaranteed one year minimum salary contract with L.A. Lakers.
15th March, 2012	NBA	Traded by L.A. Lakers, along with Luke Walton, a 2012 first round pick (#24, Jared Cunningham and the right to swap 2013 first round picks (exercised; Cleveland moved from #30 and Nemanja Nedovic to #19 and Sergey Karasev), to Cleveland in exchange for Ramon Sessions and Christian Eyenga.
15th March, 2012	NBA	Waived by L.A. Lakers.
15th November, 2012	Greece	Signed a one year contract with Panathinaikos.
4th March, 2013	Greece	Left Panathinaikos.
4th October, 2014	NBA	Signed an unguaranteed one year minimum salary contract with Golden State.
25th October, 2014	NBA	Waived by Golden State.

NBA Salary

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Listed total $14,050,000

2025/26	2026/27	2027/28	2028/29
$2,575,000 Retired Fully guaranteed	$3,200,000 Retired Fully guaranteed	$3,825,000 Retired $1,912,500 guaranteed Team option	$4,450,000 Retired $2,225,000 guaranteed Player option

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13th December 2013

Jason Kapono - Kapono's trip to Europe was not a great success. He shot in the mid 40's from three, but was unhappy with his limited usage and asked to leave. Nine months later, he has yet to sign elsewhere.

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