[Fischer] Short of agreeing to a one-year “balloon” payment, Grimes appears headed towards accepting that $8.7 million QO. The two sides remain far apart, and a Philadelphia source with knowledge of talks strongly refuted the 4-year, $39 million offer Bauman has explained on the record.
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4/39 is cheap skate so i hope it’s true that’s fake news
I can’t help but feel like this is a huge mistake by Morey. I get not wanting to lock yourself into a player you’re not sure is worth it, but it in the modern NBA it feels like tradable contracts are much more realistic and valuable than praying the stars align in free agency
I wonder what the offer was? Grimes is a bench player on a contending team, I wouldn’t go nuts with that contract.
I don’t care. The trade was to get rid of that Caleb Martin contract. While I believed in Quentin’s upside, it’s not going to be here. Sucks but that’s okay.
Excluding those 20s games with us, how much are you willing to pay him?
For me, he was on par with Naji Marshal, Derick Jones Jr. So, that’s roughly 10M per year. Those 20s games with us bump it to 15M for me.
I think 45/3 or 60/4 is very fair. For comparison, NAW, who is a comparable player and has good post season track record, got roughly 60/4 this offseason.
cannot see any route in which this goes well for him
Josh Harris is not going into the tax for this team sadly.
If he signs with a different team, he will be good. If he signs here he will immediately start to suck. Thats just how it works.
Realistically this whole saga is such small potatoes. Could we really expect Daryl to anticipate Grimes way outplaying expectations AND shooting himself in the foot during contract negotiations?
If Grimes is determined to make this a lose-lose.. then there’s not really much that we can do. And in reality he’s the 4th best guard on a mediocre team entering a semi rebuild.. we’ll be just fine without him long term
Agree that strongly refuting the 4 / 39M is a bad sign for sure, and suggests Grimes’ agent miscalculated.
Also Grimes shuffling between so many teams. He went into the offseason in a relatively good position. The goal of trading for him was always to turn him into an asset; that he managed to undermine that despite good numbers, and good will from fans (viewing his trade as one of the more sucessful moves of a disastrous season) really appears a lot like self-sabotage. Even if Morey was playing hardball, it appears way more like Grimes and agent badly misjudged the market, than he got lowballed.
Everyone needs to just wait until we get a contract. Lots of posturing is going on
How does he appear headed towards… but also the two sides are far apart? Doesn’t sound like he’s headed towards then 🙄