The Trail Blazers traded for Jerami Grant in the summer of 2022, handed him a lucrative extension a year later, and franchise star Damian Lillard promptly asked out not long after. Now the Milwaukee Bucks are reportedly interested in Grant as a trade target of their own, per NBA insider Jake Fischer (subscription required).
The Trail Blazers know how this goes. Minus the extension, the same scenario that bit them would be strongly in play for the Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo: Grant comes over and is not the elixir his new team hoped. Then the Bucks get stuck with his contract whenever the embattled superstar, Giannis, in this case, finally decides to jump ship.