What? Once you sign a deal isn't your leverage for demanding a trade way down? I assumed they weren't talking this year necessarily Yeah that's kinda how I took it, I think once you sign it has to be a explicit S&T or straight up resign. Once you sign you can't be traded until some point during the next season (want to say sometime in November). I think it's either December 15 or January 15. FWIW, the Isola report is already being refuted by Howard Beck. I still think Melo's going to end up back in NY. B/B had a texter point out that Isola stood behind his Steve Kerr to the Knicks story too