In this day and age, if you as a GM are going to let known or allow players to publicly mention they want a trade or want out, and not instead keep it quiet in house and maybe have them change their mind through the offseason privately, there is no way you can hold onto them until to the trade deadline.
IMO it also weakens the return…but that’s the “open” approach that got him the job one assumes, so have to deal with it and hope that style pays dividends in other ways.
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