Quentin Grimes is reportedly moving on from the Sixers.<\/p>\n
Grimes has agreed to a four-year, $60 million contract to join the Lakers in free agency, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n The Lakers are in the midst of major roster changes headlined by the news that LeBron James will play for another team next season.<\/a> Along with Grimes, their reported additions include Walker Kessler<\/a>, Sandro <\/a>Mamukelashvili<\/a> and Collin Sexton.<\/a><\/p>\n The Sixers acquired Grimes in a February 2025 trade with the Mavs.<\/a> He returned to the Sixers last offseason after an extended restricted free agency process, accepting the team\u2019s one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer.<\/a><\/p>\n Grimes put up big numbers late in the 2024-25 season for the sorely undermanned, 24-win Sixers. He did not come close to replicating that production the following year, averaging 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists. Rookie VJ Edgecombe <\/a>seized an opening-night starter spot in the Sixers\u2019 backcourt and Grimes served as the team\u2019s sixth man for most of the year, coming off the bench in 56 of 75 regular-season appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 26-year-old was largely quiet in the playoffs, although he did play a fantastic Game 5 of the Sixers\u2019 first-round series against the Celtics. <\/a>Grimes scored 18 points on 5-for-8 shooting in the first step of their comeback from a 3-1 series deficit.<\/a><\/p>\n Notably, the Sixers picked up a guard about a week before free agency. In his first draft as the Sixers\u2019 president of basketball operations, Mike Gansey selected Alabama product Labaron Phillon Jr. with the 22nd pick.<\/a><\/p>\n With Grimes leaving, the current guards on the Sixers\u2019 roster<\/a> are the youthful trio of 25-year-old Tyrese Maxey, 20-year-old Edgecombe and the 20-year-old Philon.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to get another ball handler, too,\u201d Gansey said after drafting Philon. \u201cYou can\u2019t just rely on a rookie point guard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The Sixers’ first two free-agent deals were frontcourt players in forward Dean Wade<\/a> and center Ariel Hukporti.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Grimes is reportedly moving on from the Sixers. Grimes has agreed to a four-year, $60 million contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,3269,678,207,3817,4155,5902,4186],"class_list":["post-775536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-quentin-grimes","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sixers-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116845853036161405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}