Portland Trail Blazers Receive: F Jerami Grant
Detroit Pistons Receive: G Eric Bledsoe, No. 7 Pick, No. 36 Pick
The simplest of trade scenarios to send Jerami Grant from the Detroit Pistons to the Portland Trail Blazers would involve draft assets and salary cap filler.
Eric Bledsoe is guaranteed only $3.9 million of his near $19.4 million expiring salary for the 2022-23 season. The Pistons would gain a few options to take advantage of depending on what their intentions are after moving Grant in a trade.
If the Pistons simply want to open up more salary-cap space this offseason, making the decision to waive Bledsoe would be the simplest way of doing so. It would clear roughly $15.5 million in salary for this offseason with no future dead cap hit.
With various young players out there linked to the Pistons between centers like Deandre Ayton and Mitchell Robinson as well as guards like Jalen Brunson and Collin Sexton, perhaps it would be wise to maximize cap space.
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There’s a case to be made that Detroit may simply be better off not waiving Bledsoe’s salary in such a hypothetical trade scenario in order to use it as a salary matching mechanism to take on a bad contract while being compensated for it with assets.
