Holiday, of course, is the kind of player who Tom Thibodeau would have invented in a laboratory.
He’s been on the NBA’s All-Defense first or second team five of the last six years. He handles the ball well. He shoots with range. He’s unselfish. Specific to the Knicks, he’d provide a welcome hand for Brunson in the backcourt, drawing the tough defensive assignment and taking some of the pressure off him to handle the ball as much as he did last year.
“Thibs and Jrue,” a longtime NBA executive texted me on Wednesday, “is a marriage made in basketball heaven.”But at what cost? That is the eternal question facing Leon Rose as he tries to strengthen the Knicks’ core. Holiday will play this, his 15th NBA season, at age 33. He is due just south of $37 million, with a player option for next year he’s almost certain to decline. The Knicks would have to pony up players to match that number, which may reduce the number of draft picks required.
What would a deal look like? Here’s one that works fiscally: Holiday to the Garden, with the Knicks shipping out Quentin Grimes, Evan Fournier, Isaiah Hartenstein, DaQuan Jeffries and Isaiah Roby. Plus, you would suspect, two of their draft picks.
In end, teams higher on the NBA’s list of likely contenders may make it a moot point. But adding Holiday would also likely move the Knicks up on that list, too. It’s worth a conversation.
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