{"id":183298,"date":"2025-10-01T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183298\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:04:09","slug":"quentin-grimes-signs-8-7-million-qualifying-offer-with-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/183298\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Grimes signs $8.7 million qualifying offer with 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restricted free agent Quentin Grimes<\/a> has signed a one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer to return to the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, agent David Bauman told ESPN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Grimes, who averaged a career-high in points (14.6), rebounds (4.3), assists (3) and steals (1) last season, will now have the ability to veto all trades during the 2025-26 season and will enter unrestricted free agency next summer when at least 10 teams are slated to have legitimate salary cap space.<\/p>\n

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After Grimes’ side indicated they desired a contract in the $30 million range early in free agency and then in the $20 million to $25 million range, the two sides never found traction on a new deal this offseason ahead of Wednesday’s 11:59 p.m. ET deadline for the qualifying offer.<\/p>\n

Bauman said the Sixers’ first formal proposal of the offseason came on Sept. 24 — nearly three months into free agency — with a four-year, $39 million offer. Days later, Grimes was offered a one-year, $8.8 million deal that gave him $100,000 more than his qualifying offer in order to waive an inherent no-trade clause. Those frameworks were declined, Bauman said, and negotiations never advanced.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Bauman said Grimes’ side offered the 76ers a one-year framework at $17 million while waiving the no-trade clause and a two-year deal at $34 million with a player option. Both were rejected by the 76ers, Bauman said.<\/p>\n

Quentin Grimes, who averaged a career-high in points (14.6), rebounds (4.3), assists (3) and steals (1) last season, will have the ability to veto all trades during the 2025-26 season.\u00a0David Dow\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 76ers drafted VJ Edgecombe<\/a> with the No. 3 pick in the NBA draft to bolster their backcourt and have had uncertainty entering the 2025-26 season given the injury concerns from last season surrounding Joel Embiid<\/a> and Paul George<\/a> — two factors challenging their ability to provide a high-money proposal to Grimes this offseason. With Grimes now on the qualifying offer, the 76ers will retain his Bird rights and believe they have a solid chance to retain Grimes while maintaining the sign-and-trade possibility with him next summer.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Grimes averaged 21.9 points and 4.5 assists in 28 games with the 76ers after being traded<\/a> from the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> at the February trade deadline. He had five 30-point games and two 40-point games with the 76ers last season. He is set to reclaim a significant role in the 76ers backcourt to start this season as Jared McCain<\/a> is expected to miss four-to-six weeks after he underwent surgery to repair a torn UCL in his right thumb.<\/p>\n

Grimes was selected No. 25 in the 2021 NBA draft and spent his first two seasons with the New York Knicks<\/a> prior to trades to the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, Mavericks and 76ers from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n

He was the last of the restricted free agents to reach a deal. Josh Giddey<\/a> (four years, $100 million with the Bulls<\/a>), Cam Thomas<\/a> (1 year, $6 million qualifying offer with the Nets<\/a>) and Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> (2 years, $48.5 million with the Warriors<\/a>) all signed in September.<\/p>\n

Entering free agency, the Nets were among just a few teams with significant cap space, which created a freeze for the restricted free agent market. The Nets have operated as the only team with real salary cap space over the past two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restricted free agent Quentin Grimes has signed a one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer to return to the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-183298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}