Quentin Grimes promised he'd deliver value far above what the 76ers were willing to pay him. He was right.
The Philadelphia 76ers took a shocking approach to Quentin Grimes and his period of restricted free agency. Mere months after trading for Grimes, it offered one of its most promising young players a salary in line with what he could make by accepting his qualifying offer—and he inevitably pursued that very path.
Fast forward to December and Grimes is delivering on every promise he made when requesting the significant salary increase the 76ers unfortunately chose to decline.