He'd have to take a Horford-like discount to stay with us long term. White needs to be the #1 priority before anyone else.
White is under contract for one more year. We can’t even offer our best extension until next summer, and if we do offer him an extension it the most it can starts at $28 million in two seasons. We should extend Holiday and worry about White later, because that might be July 2025’s problem, if it even becomes one.
Interesting strategy. It is definitely true that we don't really need and probably don't want to pay both of them moving forward. Better to pay one of them and then have more money to spend for other positions. White and Holiday play the same position. They are both combo guards (CG, my new abbreviation) who lean more to the PG role than the SG role (although both can play either). I would rather pay for say a starting PF and a starting CG, over two starting CG.
But your point is well taken, if we let Holiday get to be a UFA and also White decides to "test the market" we risk losing both. When you say extend Holiday, do you mean now/this off season? Does this assume he picks up his 2024/25 option and years are added to this? Holiday will be 34 years old at the start of next season (White will be 30). As to what his fair market value would be, I have no idea. With all the new CBA rules, not very many teams can offer a big contract to a UFA who is not their own.
As an extension though, I guess we could offer say 3 years $20M. If you include the player option year, that ends up being something in the range of 4 years/$100M. He would be 37 at the start of the last season of that contract, that could be fine or he could decline significantly. We could still probably trade him on that contract if we are able to extend White down the road. I don't think Holiday wants to be traded again though. I would much rather have White than Holiday for the next 4-5 seasons