Overview
- Multiple outlets, citing ESPN’s Shams Charania, reported Wednesday that Grimes agreed to a four-year, $60 million contract with a player option that ends his two-season stint with the Philadelphia 76ers.
- Last season in Philadelphia Grimes averaged about 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists while shooting roughly 33% from three, with reports describing his playoff shooting as inconsistent.
- Liberty Ballers and other coverage say the Sixers used part of their mid-level exception to sign Dean Wade, a move that left them with limited cap flexibility and made a match of Los Angeles’s offer unlikely.
- The Lakers plan to use Grimes as a scoring, spacing and secondary playmaking guard off the bench as they reshape their roster after several offseason signings including Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili and Collin Sexton.
- Grimes’s four-year deal with a player option gives him short-term flexibility and creates a clear need for the Sixers to replace his two-way bench role while the Lakers must integrate him into a new rotation behind their starters.