technomaster wrote:RealGM has covered this topic ad nauseam. There is nothing written, no one remembers talking about this, it's all based on merit. End of story.

Of course it is not written. That would violate the NBA contract rules. I believe it was made as a "gentlemen's" agreement and Grunwald/Dolan kept to their word.
or
we could just officially say how fortunate we were that JR wanted to come back to play for the Knicks so much that he just took the lower salary we could offer rather than play with another team at a higher salary.

EnySpree wrote:Handshake deal...I bet the NBA gm's never did that before

I wonder how many under the table deals teams have done, that's not in writing....like if you sign with us we will buy you a house and move your whole family in for free....hook up family with jobs at cablevision....

who knows...if you can speak to the owner directly and keep everything tight, then it would be tough to prove. But people would have to launch an investigation....if they ever did i think we would find out alot of side deals have been made

I've never heard of them buying a house, which would probably be really easy for the NBA to prove, but plenty of teams hire friends and family of a player. A bunch of Marbury's people were hired by the Knicks when he was here and I remember reading that the Cavs hired a bunch of Lebron's people.