It might seem at first glance that he’s redundant with Randle but that idea doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. They are both 6’8″ but Grant is 40 lbs lighter and significantly more agile. He usually draws the big wing assignment on defense and capably guards the likes of LeBron, Butler, Tatum, etc (something we desperately need). I think he’d slot in well next to Julius as a SF in the starting lineup while also being able to cover those PF minutes when Julius sits.

He also opens up some potential small-lineup possibilities, which we will inevitably need to try to counter the kind of defensive treatment we saw in the playoffs.

At 29 y/o he fits our age bracket better than Jrue.

And he shot 40% from 3 last year (which was much higher than his career average of 36%, but even his career mark would make him the 2nd best shooter on the team).

The dude checks a lot of boxes for us.

He also makes it easy to afford losing Randle if we have to include him in any next trade we might make.

He is in the first year of a 5 year market value contract. This will likely scare off several suitors, as it should. But we’ve got RJ Barrett in the first year a 4 year contract that’s nearly the same AAV, so it shouldn’t scare us as much.

If they like RJ (a big if), building a trade around Barrett for Grant should be rather easy.

How did you know I am in the mid-Atlantic? Well, I am. Northern Virginia near Dulles Airport, to be slightly more precise. Nice to meet you.

And here i was thinking that mid-Atlantic would be the Azores! 🤭

I guess metaphors are not something I generally have to deal with.

Clearly bc you missed a golden opportunity to correct Donnie’s egregious misuse of mixed metaphor. The window metaphor remained consistent in both instances. A mixed metaphor would have been if “shortens our window” was followed by something like “elongates our curve.”

I really don’t see how you look at the east right now and feel like you’re better off waiting two years.

I’m not even saying to trade for Jrue, per se, but I do agree that I would really prefer a bit more urgency from the Knicks. It’s not like we’re talking Year 3 KD, Year 2 Westbrook and Year 1 Harden here in terms of maturing assets.

Imagine being the Suns and trading for 13 years of supermax Bradley Beal and then finding out that one of the best two-way players was available too

Thomas has a foothold, they got exactly who they wanted

Favorite line of the day.

LOL I missed that when I read it. I guess metaphors are not something I generally have to deal with.

How did you know I am in the mid-Atlantic? Well, I am. Northern Virginia near Dulles Airport, to be slightly more precise. Nice to meet you.

I would love to have Jrue. He’s a favorite of mine. I just don’t see how we are the high bid on him.