Top 10 candidates for renewal: Bozin Middle-class Remaining Kai? Nesmith s salary cut? Booker 150 million in 2 years?

. Teams at the second rich line cannot package contracts in transactions. So if they want to trade to get expensive players, they need to have expensive players on their account to match. Robinson is both a bargaining chip and an excellent player. The Knicks may not easily give a full four-year contract without getting some concessions to guarantee. After all, they want that contract to remain tradable. But given the importance of Robinson in the playoffs, it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't want to renew him.