Jerami Grant not eager to leave Portland

Jake Fischer: “To your point, yes, the Lakers have, I think, limited options of players who are actually available, who are difference-makers that they could foreseeably go and acquire. To my knowledge, (Jerami Grant) is someone that’s been on the radar. We’ve written that in the past. But I think in terms of the immediacy to move one of these guys, I’m not necessarily so certain of that. I checked in on Anfernee Simons’s side of things back earlier in the offseason, and there was some temperature there of like, look, the Blazers have Shaedon Sharpe and Scoot Henderson, and they’re just not exactly close to shaping into something.” -via YouTube / July 31, 2024

Aaron Fentress: “I would be surprised if Jerami (Grant) or Anfernee Simons, that one of the two is not moved. I was told that that’s definitely the goal, that one of the two would probably be gone before training camp. Both being gone might be different. They obviously have time. They can wait until the trade deadline and see if someone else will offer more.” -via YouTube / July 30, 2024

Aaron Fentress: “Grant, you can probably wait a little while longer because he’s clearly one of your best forwards by far. So you can start him and justify that, and it’s not a big deal. But as cool a guy as Grant is, Grant doesn’t want to waste his 30s, what years he has left, on a team that’s actively tanking again and might even tank again the next year. He wants to go somewhere where he can win, so both of them will be, I predict both of them will be gone by next summer.” -via YouTube / July 30, 2024