Id seriously consider exploring this. Yes I understand that salary would be tied to our cap permanently for 3 years. Grant while not horrible on defense like Ant or Ayton were - is below average on that end. His rebounding is horrific. He forces horrible shots while not playing a team friendly role. Jrue played great and defers where it helps the team but creates when there's opportunities. Great defense too. At this point it would be a total farce if Grant continues to starts. All of Deni, Camara, Sharpe are greatly outplaying him. We've seen many Grant quotes and comments at media day and other times where he clearly has demanded a starting role. He won't be happy with less. If I were Cronin I'd explore a buyout. Let him keep 70% or so of his contract and return about 30% to be a free agent. The way Grant is playing he won't ever be tradable on this contract until maybe the final season when it's an expiring deal of little negative and little positive value. It would be better for the Blazers to get him off the roster now and save a couple bucks. Let's get Grant off the team!!!
I don't see the need. If he's playing bad Chauncey needs to bench him. If he's playing well, then play him he's owed 103M. That's more than 34M/year for 3 years. He's not going to give back enough of that to warrant the dead salary
Nah...If Cronin realizes he's not worth keeping, then Cronin can tell Billups it's OK to bring him off the bench.
