re: Jrue for the Bulls or Suns first pick?

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Not every rebuild is the Process.

Look at Atlanta. That team was a blast to watch the last couple of months and seems to be on it's way to building a winner.

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From Griffin's perspective I think any trade of Jrue would have to be for the right guy in this year's draft, not because he thinks great drafts are coming. Something like Jrue and 7 for Ja and Carter maybe could fit a rebuild trade that wouldn't be about committing to The Process.

Even that I really don't think interests Griffin much. Listen to what he said as an analyst when the AD trade demand broke. Mike Fratello asked if he'd trade AD and Jrue at the deadline to tank. Griffin's response?

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Boy I sure don't. I wouldn't go that far I don't think in that market. I don't think they can withstand that kind of a rebuild, and frankly I really am very high on Jrue Holiday by way of example. I don't think you're that terribly far away from being competitive if that's what ownership has set out to be. If what you want to do is start over again, you can still put yourself in a position to play more young kids and recoup young assets down the road for Anthony Davis and still in the Western Conference not be a playoff team. Your pick's going to be preserved simply by the virtue of the fact that this upheaval has happened.

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That is based on assumptions about the market before he got here, but have we really seen anything to suggest that his assumptions about a full rebuild were wrong? Back then it sounded like his Plan A would be rebuild around Jrue and all we've seen/heard so far confirms that it's still Plan A, maybe even Plan B behind convincing AD to stay.