It was highly improbable until recent …

It was highly improbable until recent circumstances that any NBA team would urgently require his services. Gravett went undrafted in 2019 and had his first G League season disrupted by the pandemic in 2020. When he went looking for jobs overseas—he spent time in Europe as a child—he was open to playing anywhere. Then his agent told him about an opportunity in North Macedonia. “Macaronia?” Gravett said. “What is Macaronia?” (“I’m familiar with Europe, but I had not heard of Macedonia,” he said this week. “Never did I imagine that I’d be playing in somewhere called Macedonia.”)