LOS ANGELES — The Lakers struck for a trio of signings Wednesday morning, filling out the roster with two guards and a post player that will give the Lakers flexibility on the floor.
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Guards Quentin Grimes and Collin Sexton, along with forward/center Sandro Mamukelashvili, inked deals with the Lakers in free agency. First reported by ESPN, Grimes is set to make $60 million across 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.
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Grimes, a 26-year-old shooting guard, spent the past season and a half on the Philadelphia 76ers after previously spending part of the 2024-25 season as Luka Doncic’s teammate on the Dallas Mavericks. During the 2025-26 season, Grimes averaged 13.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 75 games (19 starts), while shooting 45.0% 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 two 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 abilities. There’s room to improve his efficiency from beyond the arc; the 2025-26 season was his worst in five years in the league shooting 3-pointers.
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 on a draft-night trade after being selected with the 25th overall pick 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 year for the Toronto Raptors and declined his $2.8 million player option in order to become a free agent.
The 6-foot-9 stretch forward/center played in a career-high 80 games (13 starts), while posting 11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. Mamukelashvili shot 38.9% on 3.7 attempts from 3-points range during the 2025-26 season, potentially giving Lakers flexibility off the bench from its frontcourt – something it didn’t have with the likes of Jaxson Hayes and Maxi Kleber last season.
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Signing Mamukelashvili opens the opportunity for coach JJ Redick to experiment with playing two posts on the floor at the same time, whether that’s with Deandre Ayton or Walker Kessler, who the Lakers traded for earlier Wednesday.
Mamukelashvili finished 10th in Sixth Man of the Year voting last season.
After playing on a two-way contract for the Milwaukee Bucks to begin his career after playing four seasons at Seton Hall from 2017-2021, 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, signing 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 after he averaged 15.4 points per game on 48.5% shooting, while making 40.1% of his looks from beyond the arc, during the 2025-26 season.
Sexton, 27, is coming off a year of being used as a sixth-man style player for 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 reformed its identity with LeBron James leaving for the Lakers.
The 6-foot-3 downhill guard put up career numbers before the 2020-21 season moved to the bubble, reaching a career-best 24.3 points per game. Sexton has been searching for similar success on the floor since – and the Lakers get a low-risk scorer to weave alongside Doncic and Reaves as he attempts to get back to those highs.
Along with Kessler, the signings do not fit within the Lakers’ cap space, likely requiring a waive-and-stretch scenario with a player already on the roster such as Ayton.
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