holiday to heat trade idea

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Selling high on Holiday while the trade market is depressed would make sense, especially if the goal in New Orleans is to keep adding pieces that could play and grow alongside Zion for multiple years instead of multiple games. It might be overly simplistic, but give the best slashing big-man prospect in college basketball history a young shooter that you already can’t leave in Herro (39.2 percent from 3) and let the pecking order play out naturally. The Pelicans could expand the deal to include Redick and Dragic (who could be expiring salary for New Orleans or rerouted elsewhere), but a trade of Holiday and Jahlil Okafor for Herro, rookie Kendrick Nunn, and salary filler (let’s say Waiters and Leonard) would work. If you’re going to be bad anyway, you want Zion learning to use the ancillary pieces around him—not the other way around.

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