Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[KillerLeft]

Sixers "October 1, 2025 Re-signed G Quentin Grimes to a contract." "one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer".

I don't think Grimes' prospects are going to be any better next summer. I wonder if he'll be traded again.

[DallasMaverick]

I don't think Grimes' prospects are going to be any better next summer. I wonder if he'll be traded again.

I think signing the QO also gives him a no-trade clause - essentially the power to veto any destination he doesn’t like. Or that he thinks won’t give him the contract he wants.

Players who have an outsized opinion of their value are really hard for front offices to deal with. I kinda think Nico did the right thing by trading him.

[SkenfromLMF]

I think signing the QO also gives him a no-trade clause - essentially the power to veto any destination he doesn’t like. Or that he thinks won’t give him the contract he wants.

Players who have an outsized opinion of their value are really hard for front offices to deal with. I kinda think Nico did the right thing by trading him.

Not for the return in salary. If Philly let Grimes walk they got out from under Martin's contract. And Got paid to do it! You could say that trade cost us OMax (no great loss) but in a hard cap world the buyout might come back to byte us in the assets.

[KillerLeft]

Not for the return in salary. If Philly let Grimes walk they got out from under Martin's contract. And Got paid to do it! You could say that trade cost us OMax (no great loss) but in a hard cap world the buyout might come back to byte us in the assets.

I think the jury is still out on this, personally. It could be that the deal was atrocious, but at this point I still feel some hope that Martin will be a key contributor this year. He's probably the best POA defender on the team, currently, and while it might not be easy to envision a regular rotation spot for him, I'd have absolutely no qualms about him playing if an injury or unexpected ordering of the depth chart occurred. 

Point being, I still think there's a chance Martin will actually perform in the role they wanted to pay Grimes to play. If Martin ends up being the end-of-bench ballast people assume he will be, then yes, he's an expensive way to fill the roster and they'd probably have been better off just letting Grimes expire.