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NBA Trade Grades: Knicks Steal Cam Reddish From Hawks - Sports Illustrated
Jan 13, 2022 53 secs
Reddish, who is signed through next season, is averaging 11.9 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game.

Ultimately, New York needs two-way talent like Reddish.

Too often Tom Thibodeau has had to decide between offense or defense on the wing when closing games, and Reddish now has a chance to blossom alongside his former Duke teammate RJ Barrett.

And the Knicks will have the rest of this season and next to assess how good of a fit Reddish is with their current group?

Unless this Reddish deal is part of a bigger move, this feels like a little bit of a white-flag wave by the Hawks.

There’s a nonzero chance the Hawks end up with two second-rounders instead, which would be selling pretty low on a talent like Reddish.

The Hawks are giving up on a promising young talent; it makes a team fighting for the playoffs definitively worse, and the front office loses the flexibility of moving Reddish in a higher-profile trade.

That’s why this trade neither feels like a total failure nor slam dunk.

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