07-19-2025, 11:44 AM
(07-19-2025, 10:56 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Totally. It's Christian Wood, all over again. There's some sort of disconnect between the player fans think he is, the player the league wants him to be, and the player HE thinks he is/wants to be. Could it be any more obvious at this point that he has overplayed his hand in these latest negotiations?
One thing that always strikes me is that fans tend to think players are what they are. They think everyone who can score 20 per game does score 20 per game. I think it's much more structured than that, and featured roles go to who the teams want playing them for a wide variety of reasons. I imagine there are tons and tons of players who could've put up the numbers Grimes did for injured, tanking Philly, had they been dropped into that situation.
Further, the salaries are more connected to those roles than to what players can do, in a way. It just seems so obvious to me that Grimes believes his career should be on some sort of Dwayne Wade track, when the league and fans are screaming about how good he is (or would be) if he would just see himself as Danny Green, KCP, etc.
I predict that no matter what he ends up signing for in Philly (it will be much less than what he thinks he deserves), he will fall out of favor with the coaches and they'll move on from him pretty quickly.
Knicks prepared the Brunson plan and no space for Grimes.
Detroit obviously didn´t want to pay a player coming off an ACL injury on a poor 25 game sample size ,while they were still in rebuild mode.
Harrison is just a doofus.
76ers just play the market like the Warriors, Nets and Bulls with their RFAs that consider themselves worthy of more than the MLE.
Obviously Grimes is trying to max his salary, while 76ers try to minimize it. Just like Kuminga, Thomas and Giddey.
We´d be better off with the #35 pick and air compared to Martin, who is a glorified towel waiver, who had one play-off hot streak.