wtf for
Grantland has an article about that on their site now. It comes down to how Novak and Lin ended up in NYC. Both were waived by their former teams, in exchange for getting the players off of waivers the Knicks had to pay $1000. Knicks are arguing that this should count as a trade: based on the wording of the CBA, a team taking on the contract of another player via waivers *could* be viewed as a trade, which means the player's Bird rights are intact. NY is only fighting so hard for this because their waiver wire gambles paid off and they want to be able to use the mid level exception/remaining cap space to build up the roster instead of retaining these guys.
Even if the Knicks win this case we know that loophole will be sewn shut very soon.
Back onto OT... I would like to be as convinced as some of my fellow Mavs fans that D Will is coming home, but I don't want to get my hopes up. Just wanna know when he decides, and how that affects our pursuit if Eric Gordon/additional help.