Weird take, 14. I just mentioned the Spurs as an example of one of a few teams that would go in for an offensive-minded PF in a league that doesn't really value them. Keep in mind that even as a Spurs fan, I wanted JC to stay with the Hawks last year. I just think based on how this season has gone that Collins' future may not be with the Hawks. I'm not the only one thinking this:
https://theathletic.com/3269593/2022/04/25/heat-hawks-trae-young/
I've seen you post about the Hawks needing a No. 2 option about 90 times and avoided taking the bait each time, but I guess I'm finally going to now.
Lets start with who these #2 option type players are. For the sake of this, I'll define them as clearly better offensive players than John Collins (who we would be trading away) but not likely to be the best offensive player on a Conference Final quality team. I'm excluding guys that play PG primarily, considering we are talking about adding them to the Hawks. I'm likely missing some guys (and this is obviously subjective), but here's my attempt at listing guys that fit the definition: DeMar DeRozan, Zach Lavine, Anthony Edwards, KAT, CJ McCollum, Brandon Ingram, Khris Middleton, Pascal Siakam, Jaylen Brown, Bradley Beal, Bam Adebayo, Domantas Sabonis, Ben Simmons (?), Paul George (?), Jamal Murray (?). There's other guys who may fit the mold, but I'm sticking to relatively well established and relatively young guys that would make sense for the Hawks.
Most of those guys are currently on teams that would like to be contenders next season, meaning that those teams would have to feel as though such a trade helps them win now, similarly to how the Hawks want a trade to help them win now. I don't foresee a trade centered around John Collins fulfilling that requirement for both teams, but would love to hear a mock trade idea if you've got one.
Ok, so let's say that the Hawks find a player who is a clear #2 option and who is being made available via trade. Maybe it's one of the guys I listed above, maybe it's one I overlooked. Yes, the Hawks would love to make that acquisition, but they aren't alone in wanting to do so. Here's a list of teams off the top of my head who would also like to be able to acquire a legit championship caliber #2 option behind their star offensive player: Hornets, Jazz, Mavericks, Grizzlies, and Cavaliers. I'm probably missing some teams, and maybe you could argue about some of those 5, but the point is that the Hawks would be in a bidding war if such a player was available via trade. Maybe JC + relatively little else is enough to win such a bidding war, but I doubt it.
All that to say, it's way easier to have meaningless conversations about acquiring a #2 option for the Hawks via a John Collins trade than it is to actually find a reasonable way in which that could happen. Considering how unlikely such an acquisition seems to me, I stand by my original assertion that it is highly unlikely JC is traded this offseason.