Portland's Point Guard Logjam: Jrue Holiday Isn't Getting Bought Out

The rumor mill wanted a Jrue Holiday buyout in Portland. It's not happening. Reporting confirms the Trail Blazers have no plans to cut Holiday loose, which makes sense once you look at the money: he's still owed two years and $72 million, fully guaranteed. Nobody, least of all a cost-conscious owner in Tom Dundon, hands a contender that kind of value for free.

So Portland heads into the season with a genuine traffic jam at the point. Ja Morant, Damian Lillard, Scoot Henderson and Holiday are all fighting for touches in the same backcourt. That's four guards who all want the ball, and there's only one of it. For fantasy purposes, that's the whole story.

What The Logjam Actually Means

Holiday put up 16.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists across 53 games last season (2025-26), good for 31.5 fantasy points per game and our #78 overall rank (#38 among guards). That's a serviceable floor, but it was built in a role. Fold him into a rotation with three other high-usage guards and the counting stats get squeezed from every direction.

Lillard sits at our #18 overall (#9 at the position), coming off a 24.9-point, 7.1-assist line at 42.6 fantasy points per game (2024-25). He's the alpha here when healthy, though his last five games ran 5.8 fantasy points below his season average. Morant, meanwhile, checks in at #49 overall (#22 at guard) on 19.5 points and 8.1 assists in a shortened 20-game 2025-26 sample, 35.9 fantasy points a night — and he's trending up, plus-7.6 over his last five.

Add Scoot Henderson to that mix and you can see the problem. Minutes and usage are finite. Somebody eats into somebody else's line every night, and the guy most likely to lose in a shootout for touches is the fourth option.

Elsewhere Around The League

In Sacramento, the Kings are hunting a veteran guard to back up and mentor rookie Darius Acuff Jr., and a Russell Westbrook reunion is reportedly on the table. Westbrook gave them 15.2 points, 6.7 assists and 5.4 rebounds a night last season (2025-26) — a volume scorer with wild swings, capable of a monster line and a clunker in the same game. Sacramento is in no rush and can wait until training camp to decide.

The Kings also aren't buying out Zach LaVine, per the same reporting. The plan is to run it back, hunt a trade at the deadline, and only revisit a buyout if nothing materializes. Down in Dallas, several teams are sniffing around P.J. Washington — owed four years and $88.8 million — but with Masai Ujiri reportedly a fan, this reads more like a price-driving leak than a real availability.

Golden State's injury front is worth a note: Moses Moody hopes to be running and doing on-court work by September as he recovers from a torn left patellar tendon, but back on the court doesn't mean back in the rotation. Jimmy Butler is also on a mid-to-late-season timeline. Neither is a draft-day priority.

The Fantasy Fallout

The winners in Portland's mess are Lillard and Morant. They're the two names the offense runs through, and both carry real fantasy upside — Lillard as a top-20 overall option, Morant as a bounce-back guard whose recent form suggests the arrow is pointing up. Draft them with the logjam priced in, not as a reason to fade.

The loser is Holiday. Efficiency guys who lose usage get quietly buried, and a fourth wheel in a crowded backcourt is a rough spot to draft from. If you own him in a keeper or dynasty format, this is the window to sell high on the name before the box scores confirm what the depth chart already tells you. In redraft, let someone else reach — he's a late-round dart at best. Westbrook, for now, is a wait-and-see: no team, no defined role, and Sacramento in no hurry to give him one.