Let’s paint a picture:
You’re DA. Kyrie is still on vacation and no one in his team is in the mood to discuss anything anytime before July. Sources tell you though that KD is likely to leave GSW.
*brrrrrriiing*
While eating a salad, your phone rings and you find out NOP is inclined to move on from AD and go young. You call up David Griffin who pretty much says that he’s moving to build around Zion and wants both Tatum and Brown for AD. You say no and after some negotiation, the asking price has lowered to either Tatum, filler, and picks or Brown+Smart, filler, and some picks.
Griffin doesn’t want this nego to extend further in the offseason to avoid his franchise being dragged thru a media circus and you get the sense that if you drag this into July, his asking price will probably go up.
Which deal do you make, in principle?