re: Pels want to move to top of draft, BI to be “aggressively” shopped per Stein

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Getting Murray/Okongwu back was a widely reported deal that we kicked around last year before the deadline.

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Exactly. Same for Allen. Tons of reports out there that we wanted him too but Griff never pulled the trigger. I think Griff would rather do a deal centered mostly around Ingram and a pick or two in order to fix things i.e. the BI for Allen because then he gets a center that WG will use and a center that theoritically pairs well with Z while not giving up a ton of future assets that he can use later if/when he needs to upgrade point guard.

But I think he would prefer throwing more assets in there in order to get a pairing like Murray/Okongwu. I would prefer that too but I dont think ATL is going to part with Murray, which is why I think Griff is only really interested at Allen for the right price. But if it's a price he doesn't like, I think he'd 100% go for deals like Duren + the number 5 as a worst case scenario but still a trade he would do.