Overview
- Grimes and the 76ers remain at an impasse after weeks of negotiations without movement on a long-term deal.
- Philadelphia has extended an $8.7 million qualifying offer and identifies re-signing the 25-year-old guard as a top offseason priority.
- NBA insiders report growing indications he will accept the one-year qualifying offer, which includes a no-trade clause for the 2025–26 season.
- Under NBA rules, signing the qualifying offer lets the 76ers match external bids, grants Grimes veto rights on trades and preserves his Bird rights.
- Grimes’s breakout last season, averaging 21.9 points and 38 percent from three in 28 games, underpins his negotiating leverage given the 76ers’ salary-cap constraints.