Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is testing out different starting lineup combinations in the preseason to figure out what works best. With Scoot Henderson's injury, Portland now has six capable starters. In other words, this wouldn't even be a dilemma if Jerami Grant weren't in the picture!
In their first preseason game, Billups elected to bring Deni Avdija -- you know, arguably their best player -- off the bench. That's the opportunity cost of Grant still being on this roster.
Whether it's paying him $160 million to come off the bench, the opportunity cost of having a better, younger, and cheaper player coming off the bench, or paying in the form of adding additional assets to trade their negative asset, it's clear Portland has an expensive Grant problem on its hands.