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[DanSchwartzgan]

I totally understand that the rumor is they want Tobias for Ayton. But if Morey's supposed asking price from CLE for Tobias was Mobley+Allen+FRP, then one can assume the asking price for a 3-team trade where the team that receives Ayton gets the luxury of paying Kyrie+Hardy+Green+FRP to Philly. 

Of course that's silly. No shot it would ever happen. The realistic alternative of THJ+Maxi for Ayton I'm on board with, but there are a lot of signals PHX is sending out that they've surveyed the landscape of Ayton trades and don't like where his value is at and aren't going to sell low.

Gambo (PHX's Stein) says as such and goes so far as to say this PHI rumor is total BS: 

Haynes echoes the same point: 

Yet despite these guys clearly saying the Ayton market has closed, one has to wonder:

Me thinks thou doth protesteth too much...

Or the modern version...Please step away from the crack pipe.

For those who are interested, I don't think there is any way to do this in July from the Phoenix POV.  So, no inclusion of Wood or Holmes is possible.  So, if this is a thing (IF), Philly could take just THJ/Maxi in June.  They could also take all three of THJ, Maxi and McGee in a June deal.  They could also do THJ/Reggie/McGee.  BTW, I don't look at the supposed Moray comment to Cleveland as anything more than hyperbole.  

BTW, if you do the latter two versions that include McGee, there is room to also use the full MLE.  Rotation is probably:

Ayton/Lively/Holmes                Ayton/Lively/Holmes
MLE/O-Max/Min                      Maxi/O-Max/Min
Green/Reggie/Min      OR         Green/MLE/Min
Kyrie/Hardy/Min                      Kyrie/Hardy/Min
Luka/Min                                Luka/Min