{"id":184048,"date":"2025-10-02T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184048\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:53:09","slug":"sixers-quentin-grimes-signs-qualifying-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184048\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers’ Quentin Grimes Signs Qualifying Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

7:03 pm: Grimes has officially re-signed with the Sixers, the team confirmed in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"3:00 pm: Sixers restricted free agent Quentin Grimes<\/a> has decided to sign his one-year, $8.74MM qualifying offer, agent David Bauman tells ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was the deadline for Grimes to make a decision on that qualifying offer. Accepting it ends a three-month standoff between the 25-year-old guard and the team and will put him on track to reach unrestricted free agency during the 2026 offseason. He\u2019ll also have the ability to veto any trade during the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n

Grimes, 25, spent the first three-and-a-half seasons of his NBA career with the Knicks, Pistons, and Mavericks before being dealt from Dallas to Philadelphia in a trade for Caleb Martin<\/a> at February\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n

Primarily a three-and-D wing to that point, Grimes took on more ball-handling and play-making responsibilities for a banged-up 76ers team missing several of its top scorers and put up big numbers down the stretch. As a Sixer, he averaged 21.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 1.5 steals in 33.7 minutes per game across 28 outings (25 starts) while posting a shooting line of .469\/.373\/.752.<\/p>\n

That strong finish for Grimes complicated his contract negotiations with Philadelphia this summer. Based in large part on what the former Houston Cougar showed in the second half of \u201924\/25, his camp initially sought an annual salary in the range of $30MM before eventually lowering that asking price to $20-25MM per year, according to Charania.<\/p>\n

The Sixers, however, wary of their tax\/apron situation \u2013 and, presumably, of overpaying Grimes based on two months of production for a lottery-bound team \u2013 never came close to meeting that asking price. According to ESPN and other outlets, Philadelphia were willing to offer\u00a0a four-year, $39MM deal<\/a> or a one-year contract that would\u2019ve paid a little more than his qualifying offer. Both offers would\u2019ve required him to forfeit his implicit no-trade clause.<\/p>\n

In his latest report, Charania says the 76ers\u2019 one-year offer was worth just $100K more than the qualifying offer. Grimes\u2019 camp, meanwhile, countered with a one-year, $17MM proposal or a two-year, $34MM deal with a second-year player option, Bauman told Charania. The club turned down both offers.<\/p>\n

The 76ers will now retain Grimes\u2019 Bird rights<\/a> and believe they\u2019ll be in good position next summer to either re-sign him in unrestricted free agency or work out a sign-and-trade deal with another team, Charania writes.<\/p>\n

If Grimes agrees to a trade during the season, his new club would only have his Non-Bird rights<\/a> at the end of the season. Non-Bird rights allow for a raise of up to 20%, so in that scenario Grimes\u2019 team would need to use cap room or another exception to offer him a starting salary exceeding about $10.5MM when he reaches free agency.<\/p>\n

The Sixers now have a team salary of $194.8MM, according to ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks (Twitter link<\/a>). That puts them well above the tax line of $187.9MM, but below the first tax apron of $195.9MM.<\/p>\n

Grimes was one of four restricted free agents whose stalemates with their respective clubs lasted into mid- or late-September. Grimes and Nets guard Cam Thomas<\/a> ultimately accepted their qualifying offers, while Bulls guard Josh Giddey<\/a> and Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> worked out multiyear deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7:03 pm: Grimes has officially re-signed with the Sixers, the team confirmed in a press release. 3:00 pm:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,16102,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-184048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-quentin-grimes","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184048","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=184048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}