Quentin Grimes delivered the best game of his career on Tuesday night, erupting for 46 points, 13 rebounds and four assists in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 144-137 loss to the Houston Rockets. The 24-year-old guard,

P.J. Washington returned by scoring Dallas' first six points, but Philadelphia had the hot start offensively, as Guerschon Yabusele and Quentin Grimes helped them build an 11-6 lead. But a 6-0 run by the Mavs, with two straight buckets from Washington, a few minutes later put Dallas in front.

Quentin Grimes scoring 30 points in a game was news in itself. The Sixers' newcomer had only done so twice in three-plus years as an NBA player when he arrived in Philadelphia, but there he was on Feb.