QUENTIN Grimes

Grimes spent last season, 2025-26, with Philadelphia. He played 75 games, averaging 29.4 minutes, 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists, with 0.9 steals and 0.4 blocks. He shot 45.0 percent from the field, 33.4 percent from three and 84.0 percent from the line, good for a 58.5 true shooting mark on an 18.3 usage rate. His plus-minus for the year was 0.1, essentially even. Those numbers are from Philadelphia, not the Lakers — he's now with Los Angeles for 2026-27.

Grimes' last playoff run came last season with Philadelphia. He had 3 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists in a win over Boston on May 2, then hit a rough patch: 5 points in a loss to the Knicks on May 4, 7 points in a loss to the Knicks on May 6, 6 points in a loss to the Knicks on May 8, and 6 points in a loss to the Knicks on May 10. His minutes dipped as low as 15.8 in that stretch, well under his regular-season average. That series, like his regular-season numbers, came with Philadelphia before his move to the Lakers.

Grimes is not on the injury report. There's no injury history listed for him, and nothing has popped up to limit his minutes through the Lakers' first five games, where he's played between 19.3 and 28.5 minutes a night. For a guard the Lakers are counting on for backcourt depth, that availability matters as much as any box score line early in the season.

Grimes is a 6-4, 207-pound guard out of Houston, now 26 years old and in his fifth NBA season. He wears No. 5 for the Lakers. After four seasons building his name as a shooting guard who can defend and knock down threes, he heads into 2026-27 in a new uniform, with the shooting numbers from last season in Philadelphia — 33.4 percent from three, 84.0 percent from the line — as the track record he brings to a new roster.

Grimes' move to the Lakers was part of the conversation in the site's Lakers Notes roundups heading into the season. A Sept. 29 roundup grouped him in with names like Looney, Bronny and Reaves, and a Sept. 22 roundup folded him into a broader Starting Five discussion alongside Kushner, Iger, Walter and Cerda. Those were general roster-roundup mentions rather than specific trade or lineup reports, but they show Grimes was already part of the Lakers storyline before the games tipped off.