2. Jerami Grant
ESPN's Zach Lowe recently referenced Jerami Grant's potential trade to the Los Angeles Lakers on The Lowe Post, saying, "Should we start printing the Jerami Grant Lakers jerseys, by the way? Should we just do it now? I think I might order one." Grant has been linked to the Lakers seemingly all offseason. Still, trade chatter has recently picked up after Los Angeles missed out on multiple other free agency and trade targets, including Dejounte Murray, Klay Thompson, and DeMar DeRozan.
Grant is a great player who has embraced the city of Portland. But he's also the only player on the Blazers' roster who is 30 years or older and still owed over $100 million in his contract. A Grant trade seems inevitable at some point, but it could play out until the trade deadline. Grant isn't taking away significant minutes or a starting role from any players that the Blazers view to be their next star like Simons is with Scoot and Sharpe.
GM Joe Cronin is reportedly asking for two first-round picks in exchange for Grant, according to Sean Highkin of The Rose Garden Report. It's a high asking price, but Cronin is known to be a firm negotiator, and the Blazers seem to have leverage now that the Lakers missed out on their other targets and the fact that they need to win now with a 39-year-old LeBron James (who theoretically should be slowing down at some point).