The New York Knicks completed a trade-deadline transaction for the second season in a row a couple of weeks ago following the acquisition of Josh Hart in Feb. 2023. After cutting ties with two of the core pieces of the franchise—RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley—to wrap up the 2023 calendar year, the Knicks brass decided to move on from another of their main young assets and sent Quentin Grimes—along with ostracized veteran Evan Fournier—to the rebuilding Detroit Pistons.
Both men returned to New York on Monday to face the Knicks for the first time since they got traded, this time as visitors of a hostile Madison Square Garden.