Asking for 30 mil and not budging below 22.5 mill for a literal role player is kinda low key scumbaggery. Especially because now Nurse needs to integrate someone who's been a question mark for 6 months into an established system 3 weeks away from the start of the season. I get that 4 years 39 mill a year is a low ball, but you can't convince me that Morey wasn't expecting him to come back and say 3 years 42 mill, which would have been fair. No businessman makes their best offer first, and we know that was Morey's first offer.
No competitive team is giving him the money he wants, and no bottom feeder team is taking a chance giving him that money based on a short stretch of being the first option and scoring high. Shake Milton used to go off for 30 a game for us just two years ago. He's out of the league now playing in Serbia at 29 years old.
Also, I know this is basketball, but imagine doing this in a corporate environment and scoffing at a 100% salary increase.
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17/yr on a 1+1 was the final offer from Grimes’ side, on top of that he doesn’t owe this team shit and knows he would be signing just to get traded again
100k bonus to waive a trade clause is dumb if Josh Harris had any shame he’d atleast offer 4/50
Have fun in Sac Town, Q.
The level of coping about Grimes in our sub lately is insane. Why can’t some of y’all admit that our FO mishandled the whole situation (like always) instead of acting like Grimes is a trash player and out of his mind for asking for a bigger contract.
4 for 39 is just as unserious as 25m per year.
The only thing that matters is what each side was willing to get to and grimes and his agent said they would’ve accepted 2 years for 34m. And the sixers said no. Morey and co were unwilling to dip into the tax and first apron. That’s the story.
Both sides did what they felt was in their best interest. That’s how I view it. They don’t value Grimes that much, which makes sense, with VJ and McCain on board. Grimes’ representation definitely overplayed their hand, but they also know that this was his chance to cash in. He’s not cashing in this year unless injuries again strike and he repeats what he did, but they know he’s behind in the pecking order. He’s not what he was at the end of last season on a winning team.
Sixers were bidding against nobody to re-sign Grimes. Zero incentive to meet his demands and both sides realized it.
Taking the QO gives him incentive to play well the whole season so other teams are more likely to make offers to him as an UFA, tho they’ll need the cap space to do it.
We’ll still retain his Bird rights so we can exceed the cap re-signing him next offseason (aka we can offer the most money).
Grimes still has a lot to prove before getting anywhere near the payday he’s demanding. Not saying he’s not worth 15-20M/yr, but he hasn’t proven it yet.
Players have a limited window to make this kind of money. This could be his last meaningful contract forever. Every player should do what is best for themselves. Calling him a scumbag for trying to maximize his income is a joke.
100% salary increase is a moronic way of framing this. Maxey went from 4.5m to 45m. Should he have been happy with a 12.5 m contract instead? That’s a 200% increase so he should be, right?
What I don’t understand is why did we let Yabu go if our best offer to grimes did not require us to use that yabu space
I don’t begrudge players trying to get paid. They worked their whole life for this and have a limited window to make this money, plus the risk of injury is always there. Also I’d rather the actual players get this money than parasitic owners.
All that being said, Grimes’s demands seem pretty delusional to me.
If I asked for a 700% raise at my job, I’d be beaten with hammers