2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

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What Collins really comes down to is his relationship with Young. How much of a trade asset is Collins on a max contract, if the relationship with Young is permanently broken. In that case it ´s in the best interest of Collins and the Hawks to keep it quiet. Collins gets to pick his team, while the Hawks can extract a positive asset via a S&T, because they have a believable matching threat. If we have to give them Green and some pick swap so be it.

Markkanen is the more realistic RFA target. I don´t think the cheap Bulls owner would match a max offer for him. But after such a stunt, you can forget the Bulls also trading us Lavine in the same summer.  But there are other options like Beal, Ball, DeRozan etc.

I’m actually in favor of going the RFA route this summer. To me it’s the best way forward in regards to adding actual young talent. Which is where we still need to be. I would much rather add players that are on Luka‘s timeline instead of high cost 30 something-year-olds. And if somebody like Bradley Beal becomes available via trade you have to have young assets to get in that conversation and RFA is our best opportunity to restock the cupboard. I know we still have flashbacks of getting kicked in the Gortat’s but we’ve actually been successful the last couple of times we’ve attempted to acquire someone through restricted free agency. And there’s actually some pretty good ones available this year if we can find a way to get it done. 

Lauri Markkanen
John Collins
Devonta Graham 
Lonzo ball
Malik monk
Kendrick Nunn
Zach Collins
Frank Ntilikina
Jared Allen
Duncan Robinson

There’s a few others that I didn’t list because I Either don’t think that they’re available or like THT, I don’t think it would be worth the hassle that it would take to get them