Detroit Pistons: 5 takeaways from their chaotic and bizarre offseason

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Does Jerami Grant know what he is? Do the Detroit Pistons?

By now we know that the Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets offered Jerami Grant the same three-year, $60 million contract, but Grant chose the Pistons over his own agent’s protests because they promised him an increased offensive role.

This is an interesting thing to offer, because so much of Grant’s own offensive output came from playing alongside players like Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Life is going to look a lot different for him playing alongside players like Sekou Doumbouya, Delon Wright and Killian Hayes than with two lethal scorers and the best playmaking big man in NBA history.

You’ve got to give him credit for welcoming a new challenge, but Grant isn’t a player who can create his own opportunities effectively and his teammates are going to be too busy trying to figure out how to play in the NBA to be ensuring that he gets a significant role in the offense.

He’s also a player who can effectively defend superstars like LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and that capability is going to be wasted on a team like the Detroit Pistons. It’s equal parts puzzling for both the Pistons and for Grant himself.

Now, let’s take a look at the situation surrounding Grant’s former Nuggets frontcourt partner Mason Plumlee.

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