Kyle Korver is returning to the Jazz in exchange for Alec Burks and two second-round draft picks - Salt Lake Tribune

With the Utah Jazz struggling from 3-point range this season, the team made a move Wednesday to address the deficiency.

The Jazz will acquire veteran sharpshooter Kyle Korver from the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Alec Burks and two future second-round draft picks, a source confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported the story.

Korver, 37, is averaging just 6.8 points in 15.7 minutes per game for the Cavaliers this season, but is shooting 46.1 percent from the field and 46.3 percent from deep.

For his career, he has averaged 9.9 ppg on 44.4 percent shooting and 43.2 percent from deep.

This is the second time in Korver’s career he has been traded to Utah in the middle of the season.

The team previously acquired him from Philadelphia during the 2007-08 campaign. He played 50 games with the team that season, then two more seasons with the franchise. He joined the Chicago Bulls as a free agent in 2010.

In 180 career games with Utah, he averaged 8.7 ppg, while shooting 46.1 percent from the field and 41.6 percent from 3-point range.

Burks, meanwhile, leaves the only franchise he has ever known.

The shooting guard was selected No. 12 overall in the 2011 NBA Draft out of Colorado, and has appeared in 382 career games with the team, averaging 9.6 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.6 assists.

However, the forte of his game, has been as a slasher rather than a shooter — he is a career 42.5-percent shooter from the field, and a 35.5-percent shooter from deep.

This season, he had appeared in 17 games for the Jazz — all off the bench — and averaged 8.4 points,1.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists. After starting strong shooting the ball, he dipped to 42.2 percent overall, and 37.2 percent from deep — albeit on 2.5 attempts per game.

Before the trade, the Jazz had gone 9-12 overall, with one of their biggest problems a severe lack of 3-point shooting beyond forward Joe Ingles.

The team came in ranking 23rd in the NBA in 3-pointers made per game, with 10.1, and 29th overall in 3-point percentage, at just 31.9 percent.

Jazz rookie Grayson Allen said that Burks passed on the news of the trade to the locker room a short time before the team was slated to face the Brooklyn Nets tonight at the Barclays Center.

"I was shocked when he told me. Everyone was a little bit surprised," Allen said. "Just the timing of it. But that's how it goes."

But while he's sad to see one of his teammates go, he's also excited to see what Korver can bring to the team.

“I’m someone who takes pride in shooting the ball, and I’m sure I can learn a lot from him, what he does to prepare, and from what I know of his game, he’s great moving without the ball,” Allen added. "I’m sure there’s a lot I can watch from him and it will be cool to have that up close.”

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