“Whenever a situation like this arises, it’s always, ‘Let’s get him now, we’ll figure out the rest later,’” said a second team executive. “You get that sudden rush of excitement, that ‘Hey, we got Giannis.’” But, the same person admitted, it’s an understandable impulse because every team is on the hunt for a superstar—or, if it has one, is on the hunt for another to pair with the first. “At that moment, you go for it.”