NBA Free Agency 2017 Player Profile: Justin Holiday

Strengths

For once, a player getting traded a few times might actually be a good thing. Justin Holiday wasn’t dumped for future second round picks — he’s been included in two deals involving bigger players, and both times the team that received him elected to keep him.

First, the Hawks traded Holiday to the Bulls, who played him nearly 20 minutes per game after getting him in the Shelvin Mack trade. Then, when Chicago dealt Derrick Rose to New York, the Knicks got Holiday and played him in literally every game in their 2016-17 season.

Clearly, teams don’t mind having Holiday around, to put it mildly. In New York last season, he averaged 7.7 points (a career-high), 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists in exactly 20 minutes per game. He also shot more threes than he ever had per game, and made a respectable 35.5 percent of his triples.

Holiday is what he is — a decent wing player who can hit open threes and is athletic enough to keep up with most guys up and down the floor. He’s got some worthwhile strengths, but none of them stick out as an overwhelming asset.