POSTED: Feb. 19 -- 4 p.m. ET

Marc Stein: The Knicks are not trading Nate Robinson to Sacramento.

Now we know that for sure.

After hearing from a couple of rival executives at the trade-deadline buzzer that the Kings did manage to convince the Knicks to part with their backcourt dynamo, we were just told by one source close to the process that Sacramento definitely was not able to land Robinson.

The Kings offered Kenny Thomas to New York in exchange for Robinson and Jared Jeffries, banking on the idea that New York couldn't resist the opportunity to remove Jeffries' salary from its payroll, which would have cleared another $6.8 million off the books for the summer of 2010.

But the Knicks, we're told, couldn't bear to part with the popular Krypto-Nate, who just dethroned Dwight Howard in this past weekend's dunk contest.

I'm told Robinson is representing the Knicks as we speak ... taping an appearance with David Letterman that will air tonight.

i hear he's gonna jump over letterman...

Classic and priceless at the same time.