Grant takes more shots in Detroit — and a lot more L’s

Jerami Grant is getting exactly what he wanted in Detroit. Starter’s minutes? Check. A bigger role? As big as they come. More shots? All you can handle, bro.

Oh yeah, and he’s taking a whole lot of L’s, too.

Jerami Grant — B

We finally have an answer to the question nobody thought to ask until a couple of months ago:

How good can an NBA team be with Jerami Grant as its No. 1 option on offense? If the first quarter of the 2020-21 season is any indication, among the worst in the NBA.

The former Nuggets sixth man is averaging career highs in minutes (36.1), shots (17.8), points (23.8), rebounds (6.2) and assists (2.9) per game, in addition to his best PER (20.2). He’s also on pace to lose more games (53) than at any point since he left The Process in Philadelphia near the start of the 2016-17 season. And this in a shortened season.

To be fair, the Pistons’ current 5-14 record is actually three wins worse than their expected record (projected win-loss based off team statistics). So, they should be 23rd out of 30 NBA teams in terms of winning percentage rather than their current 28th.

De-Troit Basketball has also undergone something of a renaissance during the past five days, submitting its first potential winning week of the season (2-1), featuring wins over the 76ers and Lakers. Oddly enough, that also coincided with a decline in shots for Grant, whose 40 attempts constitute his fewest over any three-game stretch this season.

The staff inside the Grading the Week offices were more than a little skeptical of Grant’s decision to leave the Mile High City for Motown this offseason. Why ditch a title contender for a team that, under the best of circumstances, would be fighting just to make the playoffs? Especially when said contender is offering the same money?

There’s little doubt the Nuggets erred in giving too many of Grant’s minutes to Paul Millsap last season. The all-star numbers Grant has produced this season prove as much.

There’s also little doubt his role with the Nuggets would’ve grown from one year to the next.

Sure, he never would’ve been the marquee star at Ball Arena. But at least he would be playing in late April every spring, rather than booking a trip to Cancun.

Hall of Fame voters — F

Hell hath no fury like a baseball writer scorned.

Thanks to the stiff, stuffy and stodgy morality police inside the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, we won’t be adding anyone to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this year. (Except, of course, the guys voted in last year, whose ceremony was canceled by

COVID.)

This despite the fact one of the greatest outfielders of all-time (Barry Bonds) is on the ballot, as well as the greatest starting pitcher of his era (Roger Clemens) and one of the best big-game pitchers of any era (Curt Schilling).

Sure, the former two were suspected PED users in the latter halves of their careers (after, we’ll remind you, they’d already won multiple awards). And, yes, Schilling is a noted jerk who occasionally tweets awful things.

But all three were also exceptional players whose careers helped define an era of baseball.

As The Post’s Kyle Newman correctly pointed out earlier this week, there are plenty of terrible people already enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

The one thing they all have in common: They were all great baseball players.