Quentin Grimes
Quentin Grimes, 26, is preparing for his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers after signing a four-year, $60 million contract in July 2026. The Houston-born guard started most of the preseason next to Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves before the Oct. 21 opener against the Warriors.
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Where does Quentin Grimes live?
Quentin Grimes plays for the Los Angeles Lakers since July 2026, so his professional base is Los Angeles, where the team plays at Crypto.com Arena. He has not made a home address public. He was born in Houston and grew up in the Houston area, graduating from The Woodlands College Park High School in 2018, and he still trains in Houston in the offseason. Sources: Wikipedia, Andscape.
What is Quentin Grimes's nationality?
Quentin Grimes is American. He was born in Houston, Texas, and NBA.com lists his country as the USA. Sources: NBA.com, Wikipedia.
How old is Quentin Grimes?
Quentin Grimes was born on May 8, 2000, in Houston, Texas, which makes him 26 years old as of October 17, 2026. Sources: NBA.com, Wikipedia.
How tall is Quentin Grimes?
NBA.com lists Quentin Grimes at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) and 207 lb (94 kg). Some sources, including Wikipedia and his college profiles at Houston, list him at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m). He plays shooting guard and can also slide to small forward. Sources: NBA.com, Wikipedia.
What team does Quentin Grimes play for?
Quentin Grimes plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, where he wears No. 5. He agreed to join them in free agency on July 1, 2026, and the deal was signed on July 7, 2026, according to Wikipedia. Before that he played for the New York Knicks, the Detroit Pistons, the Dallas Mavericks and the Philadelphia 76ers. Sources: NBA.com, NBC Sports Philadelphia, Wikipedia.
How much is Quentin Grimes's Lakers contract?
Quentin Grimes signed a four-year, $60 million contract with the Lakers, first reported by ESPN's Shams Charania. That is an average of $15 million per season, and the fourth year is a player option. The exact year-by-year split has not been confirmed by the sources we checked. In 2025-26 he played on a one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer with Philadelphia. Sources: ESPN via Bleacher Report, Andscape, NBC Sports Philadelphia.
Why did Quentin Grimes sign with the Lakers?
Grimes called Lakers head coach JJ Redick "the main selling point". The two have known each other since 2023, when Grimes messaged Redick on Instagram for shooting advice and later spent several days at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. Grimes also grew up a Lakers fan through his father, Marshall, who played at Santa Clara alongside Kurt Rambis. Sources: Andscape, Heavy.
Will Quentin Grimes start for the Lakers?
Grimes started every Lakers preseason game until the finale against Denver on October 16, 2026, when he came off the bench and Matisse Thybulle started, according to The Athletic's Law Murray. Most projections still have him opening the season in the starting lineup with Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Walker Kessler, but JJ Redick had not confirmed his lineup at the time of this update. Sources: RotoWire, CBS Sports, Lakers Daily.
What were Quentin Grimes's stats with the 76ers?
In 2025-26 with Philadelphia, Grimes averaged 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 29.4 minutes over 75 games, coming off the bench in 56 of them. After his trade to Philadelphia in February 2025, he averaged 21.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 28 games. In the 2026 playoffs he helped the 76ers come back from 3-1 down against the Celtics, scoring 18 points in Game 5. Sources: NBC Sports Philadelphia, Andscape, Wikipedia.
What is Quentin Grimes's career high?
Quentin Grimes scored a career-high 46 points against the Houston Rockets on March 17, 2025, with eight three-pointers and 13 rebounds, playing for the 76ers. Two weeks earlier, on March 1, 2025, he had scored 44 points against the Golden State Warriors. Source: Wikipedia.
Where did Quentin Grimes play college basketball?
Grimes, a McDonald's All-American, started at Kansas in 2018-19 (8.4 points per game), then transferred to the University of Houston. In 2020-21 he averaged 17.8 points, shared the AAC Player of the Year award with Tyson Etienne, was named AAC tournament MVP and led Houston to the Final Four. Sources: Wikipedia, CBS Sports.
When was Quentin Grimes drafted?
Quentin Grimes was selected 25th overall by the LA Clippers in the 2021 NBA draft and traded on draft night to the New York Knicks for Keon Johnson. He was then traded to Detroit (February 2024), to Dallas for Tim Hardaway Jr. (July 2024) and to Philadelphia for Caleb Martin (February 2025). Sources: Wikipedia, NBA.com.
Quentin Grimes is an American shooting guard born on May 8, 2000, in Houston. A McDonald’s All-American at The Woodlands College Park High School, he spent one season at Kansas before transferring home to the University of Houston, where he became AAC co-Player of the Year and led the Cougars to the 2021 Final Four.
Drafted 25th overall by the Clippers in 2021, he was immediately traded to the New York Knicks, then moved through Detroit and Dallas before landing in Philadelphia in February 2025. That spring was his breakout: 21.9 points per game in 28 games with the 76ers, including a career-high 46 points against the Houston Rockets and 44 against the Golden State Warriors.
His contract situation then dragged on. After a long restricted free agency, he turned down several 76ers offers and signed a one-year, $8.7 million qualifying offer in October 2025, which made him an unrestricted free agent in 2026. He spent most of 2025-26 as a sixth man behind rookie VJ Edgecombe (13.4 points per game) and helped Philadelphia erase a 3-1 deficit against Boston in the first round of the playoffs.
On July 1, 2026, he agreed to a four-year, $60 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, coached by JJ Redick, a friend and shooting mentor since 2023. He is expected to play a starting role next to Luka Doncic in the first Lakers season without LeBron James. After a preseason spent mostly as a starter, the regular season opens on October 21, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena against Stephen Curry and the Warriors. Sources: NBA.com, Wikipedia, Andscape, NBC Sports Philadelphia, RotoWire.
