As he entered the NBA this season and waited for his opportunity, Quentin Grimes heard the mantra over and over from Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau: Practice is just as important as the games.
But it wasn’t the first time he’d heard this lesson, that practice, that pickup games, really any time he stepped onto a court, everything matters. He’d grown up with it, his father, Marshall Grimes, teaching him the lessons he learned as a college player.
"It really comes from my dad," Grimes said following Monday’s 14-point effort in the Knicks’ much-needed win over Sacramento. "My dad, he grew up playing basketball.