{"id":178841,"date":"2025-09-24T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178841\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:53:08","slug":"countdown-to-portland-trail-blazers-training-camp-jerami-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178841\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 training camp: Jerami Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025-26 Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> season unofficially begins Monday, when the team holds its annual media day at the Moda Center.<\/p>\n

The rebuilding Blazers return most of the key young pieces from a roster that overachieved in the second half of last season, when the team went 23-18 to surprisingly finish with 36 wins.<\/p>\n

But there are some new faces. A franchise icon is back. One of the best perimeter defenders in the league is joining the rotation. And a young Chinese phenom has arrived in the United States.<\/p>\n

What will the Blazers look like in 2025-26? In an effort to bring you up to speed, we\u2019re providing a daily snapshot of the roster as media day approaches. Next up: Jerami Grant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Let the countdown to the 2025-26 season begin.<\/p>\n

JERAMI GRANT <\/p>\n

Measurables: 6-foot-7, 210 pounds<\/p>\n

Age: 31<\/p>\n

Position: Forward<\/p>\n

2024-25 stats: 14.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists<\/p>\n

NBA experience: This will be his 12th NBA season<\/p>\n

Contract status: Grant is entering the third year of a five-year contract that will pay him $32 million this season<\/p>\n

Expected role: Key rotation player<\/p>\n

Outlook: Deni Avdija and Toumani Camara have not only emerged as the Blazers\u2019 starting forwards, but also as important building blocks of the franchise\u2019s multiyear roster rebuild. So, after a disappointing, injury-plagued 2024-25 season, Grant enters his fourth training camp in Portland facing an uncertain role. Will he play well enough to usurp his younger teammates for a starting spot? Will he slide over to shooting guard and start ahead of Shaedon Sharpe? Will he come off the bench for the first time since the 2019-2020 season? And, perhaps most important, can he regain the passion and shooting touch that prompted the Blazers to sign him to a mammoth five-year, $160 million contract? Plenty of pundits have deemed that contract one of the worst in the NBA, but the Blazers will need a motivated Grant \u2014 and his shooting, defense and experience \u2014 to take a significant step forward this season.<\/p>\n

Previous entries: Rayan Rupert<\/a> … Blake Wesley<\/a> … Duop Reath<\/a> … Damian Lillard<\/a> … Jrue Holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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