Clippers and Knicks will offer anything to get Butler...going to overpay probably
I don’t see the Knicks trading for him since they believe they can outright sign him after this season.
Does this ever work, though? Sure, the NYK is one of the teams that Butler would like to play for, but if the Clippers or Nets (or any other good enough team that he fits well into) trades for him instead, he can then sign for more years and more money, rather than leaving for what might be a worse situation in NY. If a team is sure they want a certain player, they need to be willing to trade for him in advance...that is unless they think their situation is so dire that the player could leave at the end of the season. And, who knows, that could be the Knicks.