There was a sense of relief the moment the Philadelphia 76ers finally resolved their glib contract standstill with Quentin Grimes, but in reality, the team is now boxed in a lose-lose situation. They did not win this one at all.
Stuck in the corner and left with no other options, one can say that Grimes did not really come to terms with the 76ers on a new deal to return to the squad. He simply had no choice but to settle for the team’s relatively meager qualifying offer amounting to $8.7 million, especially since the deadline to do so nearly breezed through him.