For so long, it has seemed like the New York Knicks would not render a final verdict on Mitchell Robinson’s future by the trade deadline. They won’t extend him, but they won’t move him, either. They will instead let his situation ride into free agency this summer, and figure everything out then.
As it turns out, though, the Knicks may not have that luxury.
Figuring everything out later rests on the notion that Robinson will not have an aggressive batch of suitors on the open market. This is a reasonable assumption to make. Robinson’s availability is forever in question, and the way teams value non-stars at virtually every position continues to shift in a not-so-player-friendly direction.