The Portland Trail Blazers have been scrambling all throughout July trying to decide how to proceed following Damian Lillard’s trade request. But a decision the team made shortly before could haunt the Blazers for a while.
Portland signing Jerami Grant to a five-year, $160 million contract was deemed one of the five biggest free agency mistakes by Bleacher Report contributor Zach Buckley.
He simply isn’t worth this kind of coin—his 14.0 career player efficiency rating is actually a tick below league-average—and the only (relatively) reasonable rationale for the overpay was to keep Lillard happy.