First, I need to stipulate some limitations, as I am one of the developers of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. My opinion is clearly biased :)
What are your requirements? How many lines do you plan to show in the grid? How many records do you have in the database? I tested a grid with 100k db entries and 10 points per page. Performance was very good.
By default, extensions include jQuery-1.4.2.min.js, but you can prevent this and enable it yourself:
<%= Html.Telerik().ScriptRegistrar().jQuery(false) %>
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