DALLAS — As Jerami Grant contemplated a four-and-a-half-hour late-night flight from Dallas to Portland, he had several options for how he might pass the time in the friendly skies.

The Portland Trail Blazers veteran could slip on a pair of headphones and listen to some tunes. He could pull out a tablet and zone out to a movie.

He could stew over the details of another down-to-the-wire Blazers defeat and dwell on another winnable game that slipped away in crunch time.

In the end, he settled on a different option altogether.

“I’m about to go to sleep, man,” Grant said, chuckling, as he got dressed in the visiting locker room at American Airlines Center.

It was that kind of night — and that kind of trip — for Grant and the Blazers, who stumbled to the lowest point of their season Sun

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