{"id":860978,"date":"2026-10-17T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/860978\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:00:18","slug":"jj-redick-still-mulling-over-quentin-grimes-role-for-the-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/860978\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick still mulling over Quentin Grimes’ role for the Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When coach JJ Redick<\/a> announced his starters for the Lakers\u2019 final preseason game Friday night, he was asked if those same players would start opening night Wednesday against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n

Redick paused before answering, not quite willing to commit. He started Luka Doncic<\/a>, Austin Reaves<\/a>, Matisse Thybulle<\/a>, Ziaire Williams<\/a> and Walker Kessler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quentin Grimes<\/a>, who had started the first four preseason games and had been solid in his role, was not among them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that there\u2019s a chance Quentin is gonna have an opportunity to start,\u201d Redick said. \u201cThis was the original plan we were gonna have for the Sacramento game with Collin [Sexton] out. … We just wanna get a look on that tonight, and we\u2019ll see. But nothing definitive for next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grimes averaged 12.3 points, 2.5 assists and shot 53.3%, including 41.2% from three-point range, in 24.3 minutes per game in the preseason.<\/p>\n

Redick said he was \u201cstill open to both\u201d when asked if he could start Grimes and stagger his time with the starters on the bench.<\/p>\n

In his first five NBA seasons, Grimes has mostly been a reserve, starting 146 of 318 games.<\/p>\n

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Grimes started the second half for the Lakers and scored 11 points in a 121-106 loss<\/a> to the Denver Nuggets at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019re looking for balance in lineups and you\u2019re looking for players that complement and fit each other,\u201d Redick said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to start a lot of games for us. That\u2019s just the reality of it. I don\u2019t know who our base starting group is yet, but we\u2019re going to look at this tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to get a look on this first game because Collin was out. That fourth ballhandler for us hasn\u2019t been great. I said that the other night and talked to those guys … I don\u2019t say anything out here that I don\u2019t tell my players. So Quentin is also going to maybe have some looks as a ballhandler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doncic, who didn\u2019t play in the second half, finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n

Reaves scored 19 points, Williams had 14, Kessler had six and Thybulle had seven.<\/p>\n

Injury update<\/p>\n

Sexton didn\u2019t play in any preseason games because of a lower right leg injury. Redick said Sexton has been able to practice more.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe continues to trend in the right direction,\u201d Redick said.<\/p>\n

Adou Thiero (maintenance) and Cameron Carr (contusion) didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When coach JJ Redick announced his starters for the Lakers\u2019 final preseason game Friday night, he was asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4063,1661,300,3887,368,7211,6,65,6348,4155,395,1841,101124,1198,1405,4610],"class_list":["post-860978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-collin","tag-jj-redick","tag-lakers","tag-look","tag-luka-doncic","tag-matisse-thybulle","tag-nba","tag-point","tag-preseason-game","tag-quentin-grimes","tag-redick","tag-role","tag-same-player","tag-starter","tag-walker-kessler","tag-ziaire-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117454728347517847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860978","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=860978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}