Maybe we can pick him up as another reclamation project like Crawford and Turner. I'd sign him next year for MLE.
For the MLE?
Just trade for him now and pick up his option then. It's cheaper than the MLE.
Also, Crawford is out of the NBA. I'm not sure how he qualifies as a reclamation project. He was traded for about $500k (what the Warriora gave us). The second round picks were because we were willing to take on Joel Anthony's contract, which turned into $2.9 million dead money to Will Bynum. Crawford was not reclaimed.
Crawford is in China because he didn't want to come off the bench for a minimum contract. It's not because teams didn't want him. He went overseas because he liked that option better, not because he had no choice but to do so if he had any hopes of rebuilding his value.
He went from a guy who teams would probably only be willing to gamble with for a non-guaranteed contract to a guy teams would probably be willing to give a fully guaranteed contract for the minimum if he would accept a backup role. So, his play for the Celtics probably enhanced his perceived value a little bit.
The poster I quoted said we should give Robinson the MLE, and compared him (presumably favorably) to a reclamation project like Crawford. Whether he's out of the NBA because he couldn't get signed at all or couldn't signed to more than a minimum bench role is pretty nit-picky, and relying on hearsay evidence at best, when he's being used as an example to support giving a player a $5 million contract. Whether he improved his value or not from his time in Boston is also pretty much speculation -- there's no way of knowing if he was a fully or partially guaranteed quality player. In either case, it does not seem that he's considered to have improved his standing to that of "valuable NBA role-player" and is, at best, an end-of-bench guard.
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