2014 NBA Redraft: A tale of two big men and two missed picks

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#27 Pick: Jerami Grant (Originally: Bogdan Bogdanovic)

Funny enough, we had the Suns going with Bogdanovic earlier in the draft as a draft and stash. This gives them a chance to go with another low-cost option, also known as the Robert Sarver special.

Jerami Grant is the best player available and therefore the choice this late in the draft for the Suns. His slow progression into a starting option would have kept him low cost so the Suns would be living up to their ideals, but he would provide some of the scoring off the bench they are losing with T.J. Warren going elsewhere in this draft.

Grant comes from a strong lineage of basketball, highlighted by his uncle Horace, a four-time NBA champion. Over recent years, Grant has transformed himself into the type of role player off the bench who can contribute to a possible championship team, which is why the Denver Nuggets traded for him last summer.

He has shot 39.6 percent from 3-point range over the last two seasons. That is the entire name of the game for this stretch power forward. Spacing the floor for a team at all positions is the modern form of basketball and adding Bogdanovic and Grant would do just that.

With the twenty-eighth pick in the 2014 NBA Redraft, the LA Clippers select…

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