misterearl wrote:If Any NBA GM gives up a draft pick for Nate Robinson he can bet his life that he will be toasted and roastedThe Knicks yoots are doing just fine with The Mayor rounding into campaign form, Gallo driving and thriving and David Lee playing as if his next contract depends on it. The volatile Mike D'Antoni has removed Al Harrington as a starter role and reduced his minutes.
Meanwhile, back at (cough) "Nate-Gate"
"...the Knicks can accept no more than $2,625,223 in exchange for Robinson. The team at the other end of the transaction would use Robinson’s full $4 million salary, rather than his BYC amount. Working the math the other way, this means that another team would have to trade away at least $3.12 million in order to acquire Robinson.
See the problem here?
The other team would need to trade away more salary than the Knicks could accept. Robinson could not, for example, be traded straight-up for another $4 million player.
There are ways to work around BYC. If another team has a trade exception for at least $4 million, it can use it to acquire Robinson without adhering to the salary matching requirement. It could also find a third team willing to take on some additional salary in order to help balance the books. Or it can add more players to both sides of the trade, until the numbers are sufficiently large that they overcome the effects of BYC. But any of these alternatives would make a trade more complicated, and therefore make it much harder for Walsh to get a deal done"
- Larry Coon, NYT
Coincidently, Miami has a trade exception for 4.2 million from the Marcus Banks trade. As I said we can move Robinson the issue is what teams are willing to give up for him.
Miami could use Robinson's services since their bench is pathetic.
