Knicks pick Quentin Grimes after two NBA Draft trades
NY Post
Knicks president Leon Rose traded but was unable to trade up. So he traded out, then traded back in Thursday’s NBA draft at Barclays Center.
Rose didn’t get his top-priority 3-point shooting wing in the first round but he strategically traded back and got a fine two-way guard who may have been undervalued in University of Houston junior Quentin Grimes with the 25th selection. And in perhaps saving the night from being a complete letdown, Rose traded his 32nd pick for Nos. 34 and 36. He used the 36th selection to take popular tough-as-nails point guard Miles McBride of West Virginia — a Tom Thibodeau favorite.More Related News
The Knicks had lost a couple of games in a row, on the road, to the two acknowledged beasts of the NBA East. They’d gotten steamrolled in Milwaukee in the quarterfinals of the In-Season Tournament, getting trucked by 24 and surrendering 146 points, followed that up with a 133-123 humbling in Boston.