Interesting deal with the Knicks today… they’ve signed Roby for $400K for just one game this year:
* [https://nypost.com/2023/04/09/knicks-give-isaiah-roby-400k-for-one-day-to-have-him-for-next-season/](https://nypost.com/2023/04/09/knicks-give-isaiah-roby-400k-for-one-day-to-have-him-for-next-season/)
* [Woj tweet](https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1645056011093397505)
This seems to mean they’ll have him for the summer league, and as a tryout for next year (there’s no guaranteed money for the ’23-24 season).
He was up and down for the Spurs, especially his shooting which really fell off after the first couple months. Given his time in OKC and few minutes he played here, it could just be a fluke where his shots weren’t falling.
Anyway, congrats to Roby on becoming one of the highest paid players in the league for a day.
by ThatsMarvelous
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Update – I checked the box score to see how he’s doing in his audition, and he’s not even playing today (he’s listed as “Not With Team” on the [injury report](https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/referee/injury/Injury-Report_2023-04-09_12PM.pdf)). So it’s a $400K signing *to not even play*. Wow.
Kinda funny the Knicks have now picked up two of our castoffs in Roby and Luka
I’m not too worried letting Roby go will come back to haunt us
Update #2 — someone on r/NYKnicks spotted what’s going on. It’s actually pretty genius and mirrors what the Celtics did for their Malcolm Brogdon trade.
He’s being added primarily to be trade salary fodder this off-season. Jeffries + Fournier + now Roby = $25 million in salary to trade for a quality player. Roby’s ’23-24 salary is just the league minimum and non-guaranteed, but every bit helps and the Knicks wanted to give themselves a bit more flexibility to go for those higher value trades this off-season.
So, what was in this Roby? Not much — a non-guaranteed minimum contract for next year is something he could have pretty easily gotten anyway. So essentially the Knicks are paying him $400,000 to lose some flexibility and help them out with this trade situation, and his worst case is he gets a nice chunk of cash and maybe has an NBA deal for next year out of it. Win-win for both Roby and the Knicks.