That all makes sense. And this has been fun to discuss and learn. Though I messed up the wording of my last question, which I meant to ask as, what does the team gain by trying to trade him, despite the no-trade clause? Aren't they just opening themselves up to some kind of contract dispute?

It does helo. But i think there are nore questions now. For instance, In what way has he been thrown under the bus? I've also seen that he has a ni-trade clause in his contract, so what would rhe team gain by even attempting this? Did they break contract to force this? Buy it out?

So if he has a no-trade clause in his contract why is the team even trying this? Are they ignoring/breaking the contract to trade? Are they buying it out?

I'm ignorant of what this means. I'm not a big team-sports fan, but I do find it interesting.

So I have some questions if someone doesn't mind answering.

What is a trade? What's the purpose?

Why would a team want to trade a player? Wouldn't they want to keep any good players they have?

Why would a player want to be traded? Or in this case, to not be traded?