Jerami Grant has been a trade candidate ever since signing his five-year, $160 million deal to stay in Portland. With Damian Lillard's league-altering trade request coming just one day after the Trail Blazers drastically overpaid for Grant, many around the league assumed that Grant would be the next domino to fall.
After all, Lillard was the one who pushed for the Blazers to acquire Grant from the Detroit Pistons in the first place. With the Lillard connection out the window and Portland shifting to a more youthful timeline around Shaedon Sharpe and Scoot Henderson, it no longer made sense for the veteran Grant to stick around, especially at cost.