It seems like there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to the stance the Philadelphia 76ers took as they charted the waters of their delicate restricted free agency situation with Quentin Grimes.
Ultimately, the young wing failed — resoundingly failed — to get what he and his camp wanted from Day 1. After several months of snail-paced negotiations which yielded several rounds of impasse, in the end, Grimes was only able to muster nothing. He was compelled to take the 76ers’ qualifying offer amounting to around $8.7 million, narrowly avoiding the deadline to do so.