Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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That's not what I said at all. You're free to disagree with my opinion, but not to twist it into something else.

I have said multiple times that I don't think Grimes is as good or valuable as he appears to look in the context he's in. For a good team (like the Mavs were when healthy), he's probably a C level player in their rotation, more or less how Kidd used him, because his defense is not reliable.

Playing on a BAD team, where he can get all the shots and minutes he wants, sure he's going to look very different. A Philly team desperate to lose games so they can land in the top 6 picks and keep their 1st rounder was tailor made for someone like that. But on a good team, a C-level player has to rein in their shooting a lot and contribute reliably in other ways, or they don't play, because that good team is going to want to feed their main players.

Using him in a way suitable to his place on the team is not an attempt to "tank his value" but rather what a good coach has to do to try to max out his team's chances to be elite. The Mavs' priority this season was winning, not polishing up Grimes numbers.

That's my view of Grimes, and I've shared it before.

I totally agree with this assessment. Grimes wouldn't have had the same impact if he stayed here. He's just taking advantage of an opportunity since Philly's big guns are out with injuries.