Calling his client�s eight-game stint on the bench �personal� with Knicks coach Mike D�Antoni and his brother Dan, an assistant, Nate Robinson�s agent Aaron Goodwin said Saturday night he plans to ask team president Donnie Walsh to get Robinson out of New York.

�At this point, there�s no way I believe this is purely basketball related,� Goodwin said via telephone from his Oakland, Calif., home. �There�s got to be something personal in there.
�Prior to this season, Nate Robinson said he thought there was some discontent for him from both D�Antonis.�
Mike D�Antoni has insisted it isn�t personal, saying Friday, �The only thing I don�t want to get into is it�s a personality thing, that I don�t play a guy because (of that).� He was not asked about Robinson after Saturday�s practice for tonight�s game against Charlotte and couldn�t be reached Saturday night.
Walsh, however, said Goodwin called him Saturday night and, �We agreed to talk about it. I�m open to talking about it because I understand Nate doesn�t feel like he�s playing and he�s in the last year of his contract. So we�ll discuss trading him.�
Yet, besides trading a player who, as a restricted free agent last summer, signed a one-year deal to stay with the Knicks worth $4 million (almost double last season�s salary), plus a $1 million playoff bonus, the two sides also could agree on a contract buyout.
That could be the easiest way out, for a trade brings into play several issues.
First, Walsh remains adamant that he won�t trade for anyone (except in an extraordinary circumstance) with a contract that extends beyond this season, in order to preserve the Knicks� salary-cap space for next summer.
Robinson also can veto any trade, although Goodwin said, �For a trade to the right place, he�d accept a trade.�
Doing so, though, would mean voiding a labor provision that would allow the team that trades for him to exceed its salary cap to re-sign him after this season, when he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Standard buyout protocol, meanwhile, means the Knicks likely would save the difference between Robinson�s salary and what he would get from a team that signs him, likely in the $1 million range of the veteran�s minimum salary.
Goodwin said the last straw for his client, whose various behavioral issues have sullied his relationship with the Knicks, was Thursday�s game in Chicago, when Goodwin said that while the Knicks struggled offensively, �The coach never even looked to Nate Robinson.�
Also Saturday, Robinson�s newest bench-buddy Eddy Curry expressed his own ire at not playing in Friday�s victory over the Clippers, although at first he adopted the diplomatic tone Robinson has expressed about his benching, saying, �Nobody�s ever happy not playing at all. But I�m happy we won.�
But when asked if he got an explanation why he didn�t play, Curry�s tone changed.
�No,� he said. �I�ve stopped trying to understand things. I just kind of roll with the punches. I�ll continue to try to be ready, but I�m not going to try to understand.�
Then he turned sarcastic, saying, �I�ve just got to keep going hard at practice and whatever minute or two I get out there, try to do something to make me stay on the court and that�s it.�