Last summer, Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian stated that trading away one of Anfernee Simons or Jerami Grant before training camp was the Portland Trail Blazers' goal. Roughly one year later, Portland finally achieved that goal by shipping Simons to the Boston Celtics.
It's unsurprising that Grant remains on the Blazers roster because, well, he's the one who's impossible to move. Simons is on an expiring contract and made financial sense for Boston to acquire to get under the second apron. Meanwhile, Grant is arguably on the worst contract in the entire association.