07-19-2025, 11:49 AM
(07-19-2025, 11:44 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Knicks prepared the Brunson plan and no space for Grimes.
Detroit obviously didn´t want to pay a player coming off an ACL injury on a poor 25 game sample size ,while they were still in rebuild mode.
Harrison is just a doofus.
76ers just play the market like the Warriors, Nets and Bulls with their RFAs that consider themselves worthy of more than the MLE.
Obviously Grimes is trying to max his salary, while 76ers try to minimize it. Just like Kuminga, Thomas and Giddey.
We´d be better off with the #35 pick and air compared to Martin, who is a glorified towel waiver, who had one play-off hot streak.
Sure, there's that side of it, too, and I'm not saying the above is incorrect, or doesn't make sense. But, there's a reason Kidd didn't play this guy enough. There's a reason his defense wasn't remotely close to what we thought it would be when he did play here (those two things are linked, for me). There's a reason he's asking for more money than he can possibly get, coming right off of an "empty stats" end of year run in a role he won't be allowed to play next year.
We can disagree, and I'm not talking about the trade, really, but I, personally will not miss Grimes. I don't think he has any interest in being the player we all wanted.