Quentin Grimes spent much of his first four seasons looking like a player who’d be solid without ever developing into much more than a low-volume, three-and-D wing.<\/p>\n
In Years 1 through 3, he averaged 8.5 points and hit 37.1 percent of his three-point attempts.<\/p>\n
But after a contract-year trade to the injury-ravaged Philadelphia 76ers, Grimes erupted for 21.9 points, 4.5 assists and 2.9 threes over his last 28 games.<\/p>\n
He showed a previously unseen (or at least unhighlighted) ability to create shots both for himself and others. He maintained his outside shooting efficiency and still looks like he has multipositional defensive ability.<\/p>\n
In most years, all of that would translate to a pretty healthy payday. But Grimes, like those already detailed, is a restricted free agent. There’s really no reason for Philadelphia to pony up a huge deal, since the lack of cap space around the league has almost entirely eliminated competition for his services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Grimes spent much of his first four seasons looking like a player who’d be solid without ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-28053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}