Quentin Grimes (SG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 21

March 12, 2023

Quentin Grimes is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 21 of the 2022-23 NBA season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues

ANALYSIS: A lot of people is going to be rostering Quentin Grimes through this weekend and into next week after the news of Jalen Brunson (re)injuring his sore foot in the game against Sacramento and getting ruled out of the matchup against the Clippers on Saturday.

Even if/when he's back to manning the Knicks point-guard position, though, Grimes should retain his current value as his role in Thibs' scheme won't change that much with or without Brunson around.

Grimes has been the starting two/three of the Knicks all year long and that won't change now. The thing with Grimes, though, is that you should know that he's turned into a preternatural 3&D type of player with a lot of minutes of playing time (not that many of late, tho) more because of his defensive chops and his three-point prowess than an actual high-volume offensive contribution.

The second-year man has scored 10+ points three times in March (five games) but he missed on reaching double-figure points in all but three of his 11 February games. That tells you enough about what you can expect from the guard. Grimes is always going to give you low-volume three-point shots and makes (nearly 2 3PM per game through the full season) as he's hit at least one 3PM in 10 consecutive games and 2.8 3PM per game in March alone, but outside of that he doesn't come loaded with multi-cat upside.

Grimes is averaging a per-game 10-3-2 stat line to go with 1.0 stocks. Again, his best traits are keeping things simple and stay focused on what Thibs demands from him, thus the 1.0 TOPG and the good steals/blocks on just 29 MPG.

If you filter all NBA players by points, rebounds, assists, turnovers, and 3PM/G through the full season, you only get three matches for Grimes' numbers: Al Horford, Grayson Allen, and Max Strus. Quite telling, but still, nice fantasy contributors in very particular ways.

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