The Lakers add shooting guards in Grimes (four years, $60 million) and Sexton (two years, $19 million) and a 6-foot-9 forward/center in Mamukelashvili (four years, $52 million).
The Lakers started NBA free agency Wednesday by signing, from left, guard Quentin Grimes, forward-center Sandro Mamukelashvili and guard Collin Sexton. LOS ANGELES — The Lakers struck for a trio of free agent deals on Wednesday morning, filling out the roster with two guards and a post player who will give the Lakers flexibility on the court.
Guards Quentin Grimes and Collin Sexton, along with forward/center Sandro Mamukelashvili, agreed to deals with the Lakers in free agency. Grimes is set to make $60 million over four years, with a player option for his final season, Sexton agreed to a two-year, $19 million deal with a player option, and Mamukelashvili will sign a four-year, $52 million deal which also includes a player option, multiple league sources confirmed to the Southern California News Group.
ESPN first reported the terms of all three agreements. The deals will become official on Monday, when the free agency moratorium ends and teams are allowed to sign on the dotted line to officially bring in their new acquisitions. Grimes, a 26-year-old shooting guard, spent the past season and a half with the Philadelphia 76ers after previously spending part of the 2024-25 season as Luka Doncic’s teammate on the Dallas Mavericks.
Grimes averaged 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 75 games last season, while shooting 45% from the field and 33.4% from 3-point range. Grimes likely slots into the voids left by free-agent departures Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard , slotting into the shooting guard role as the Lakers’ roster for next season starts to take shape.
Grimes is a traditional “3-and-D” guard, a plus defender with catch-and-shoot ability. There is room to improve his efficiency from behind the arc; the 2025-26 season was his worst showing from long range in his five NBA seasons. The Lakers will be Grimes’ fifth NBA team.
The 6-foot-4 guard began his career as a member of the New York Knicks when the Clippers sent Grimes to the East Coast in a draft-night trade after being selected 25th overall in the 2021 NBA Draft. The Knicks later traded Grimes to the Detroit Pistons, who then traded the Houston alumnus to Dallas before one last trade landed him in Philadelphia.
Wednesday marks the first time Grimes had the choice of where to spend the next stage of his career after becoming an unrestricted free agent for the first time. Mamukelashvili is coming off a career-best season for the Toronto Raptors and declined his $2.8 million player option in order to become a free agent. The 6-9 stretch forward/center played in a career-high 80 games , while posting 11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game last season.
Mamukelashvili shot 38.9% on 3.7 attempts per game from 3-point range, potentially giving the Lakers some frontcourt flexibility off the bench – something they didn’t have with the likes of Jaxson Hayes and Maxi Kleber last season. The addition of Mamukelashvili opens the opportunity for Coach JJ Redick to experiment with playing two post players on the floor at the same time, whether that’s with Deandre Ayton or Walker Kessler, whoAfter playing on a two-way contract for the Milwaukee Bucks to begin his career following four seasons at Seton Hall, the Georgian-American big man was claimed off waivers by the San Antonio Spurs, allowing him to secure consistent playing time from 2023-25.
Mamukelashvili played in 61 games for the Spurs during the 2024-25 season, then signed a multi-year deal with the Raptors last offseason. To round out the group of free agency signings, the Lakers signed Sexton for his high-octane scoring. He averaged 15.4 points per game on 48.5% shooting, while making 40.1% of his 3-point attempts last season. Sexton, 27, was used as a sixth-man-style player while splitting his season between the Chicago Bulls and the Charlotte Hornets.
When he entered the league in 2018, the shooting guard started for the Cleveland Cavaliers as the team went through another transition with LeBron James leaving for the Lakers. The 6-3 downhill guard posted career numbers in the 2020-21 season, averaging 24.3 points per game. Sexton has been searching for similar success since – and the Lakers get a low-risk scorer to play alongside Doncic and Reaves as he attempts to return to those highs.
Along with Kessler, the signings put the Lakers up against a wall when it comes to the salary cap , having room for just two roster spots at the veteran’s minimum. Hayes will not be one of those signings after the former Lakers center announced on Instagram his intentions to sign with Utah on a two-year, $12 million deal.
This also means, however, that the Lakers are almost certainly bidding farewell to forward Rui Hachimura this offseason as the roster for Redick to work with continues to go through significant changes.
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