Bauman said the Sixers' first formal proposal of the offseason came on Sept. 24 -- nearly three months into free agency -- with a four-year, $39 million offer. Days later, Grimes was offered a one-year, $8.8 million deal that gave him $100,000 more than his qualifying offer in order to waive an inherent no-trade clause. Those frameworks were declined, Bauman said, and negotiations never advanced.
"Obviously a tough season ... not where we expected to be," Morey said in his end-of-season news conference, conducted alongside Nurse about 90 minutes after Philadelphia's season-ending loss here at Wells Fargo Center.