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Nets get: SG/SF K.J. McDaniels
Rockets get: Trade exception, cash considerations
K.J. hardly plays -- averaging just 2.8 points in 7.3 minutes per game -- mostly due to a busted jump-shot and mere incompetency on offense. Nonetheless, however, he is an athletic wing and a pesky defender who only recently turned 24 years old, and those types of guys are always worth taking a chance on: think Jae Crowder, Iman Shumpert, Khris Middleton, etc. Not that McDaniels is necessarily a sure thing to have the type of impact that these guys do -- far from it, in fact -- but rather that he's worth a shot, especially for a Brooklyn team that needs a "shot" to land on target sooner rather than later, and especially when you can fire said "shot" for nothing in exchange.
Grade: A
Nets get: SG/SF K.J. McDaniels
Rockets get: Trade exception, cash considerations
K.J. hardly plays -- averaging just 2.8 points in 7.3 minutes per game -- mostly due to a busted jump-shot and mere incompetency on offense. Nonetheless, however, he is an athletic wing and a pesky defender who only recently turned 24 years old, and those types of guys are always worth taking a chance on: think Jae Crowder, Iman Shumpert, Khris Middleton, etc. Not that McDaniels is necessarily a sure thing to have the type of impact that these guys do -- far from it, in fact -- but rather that he's worth a shot, especially for a Brooklyn team that needs a "shot" to land on target sooner rather than later, and especially when you can fire said "shot" for nothing in exchange.
Grade: A