If we make no Rudy move, you have no idea how spared we will be. We would trade him and possibly be in the play-in. Not possibly fall to the play-in, but possibly be in the play-in to escape the lottery. Don would the ask out and we’d get much less return on him, while having the rest of the roster be “Don’s win-now guys.” At least if we keep everything together, we can still make the playoffs and roll the dice on a new coach and fringe moves, followed up by a better return on Donovan when he asks out because it won’t be patently obvious that we have no leverage when we’re a lottery team.