Sometimes I wish teams could just release players from their contracts like in football.
The NBA was considering a rule where you could release one player from his contract each season. I'm very glad they didn't decide to have such a rule, though. If there were such a rule, the Knicks would have never gotten Marbury because the Suns would have already let Penny go and the Knicks couldn't have made the deal for Marbury worthwhile by taking Penny's bad contract. I'm expecting the Knicks to make a similar type of deal after next season when they have $30 plus mil in expiring contracts and can take back one or more bad contracts to get superstar; however, they could not make such a deal if the NBA had this rule.