Because the way things are going, it looks like Nate is going to be getting a head tattoo and making home videos while high as a kite.  From the New York Post:

When asked directly if he’d be willing to buy Robinson out like he did banished Stephon Marbury last February, Walsh did not dismiss the idea.

“When I signed him I thought he’d be an important player on the team,” Walsh said. “I don’t know. We’ll have to talk about it, OK, what is it [the number].”

Despite Walsh dancing around the issue, it’s pretty obvious that the Knicks are through with Nate Robsinson.  And they should be – they’re a better team without him.  Nate can score, but that’s really about it – and lots of guys in this league can score.  He doesn’t have the enormous albatross of a contract that Marbury did, but paying a guy $4 million to sit the bench doesn’t make a lot of sense, especially when it’s arguable that Nate actually hurts his team.

I’ll admit, there’s a part of me that enjoys seeing selfish, one-dimensional players get banished to the bench.  We’re all played pickup ball with the asshole who shoots every time he touches it and then brags that he scored 10 points (in a 15-point game), despite shooting like 30%.  Nate Robinson is simply a glorified version of that type of player, and it’s sort of refreshing to see him benched as a sort of symbolic gesture toward all ball-hogging assholes.