It appears that Vladimir Radmanovic is going to stay with the Seattle SuperSonics for the rest of the season.

Radmanovic?s agent, David Bauman, said the fifth-year forward will neither seek a trade nor allow the Sonics to trade him because it would not be to Radmanovic?s financial advantage. He becomes an unrestricted free agent next summer. Radmanovic turned down a six-year, $42 million offer from the Sonics last summer.

?We will not push for a trade because it is not in his best interest,? Bauman said. ?If Vlade was a mid-level guy or less, we would be looking at trades. For a guy like ? Flip Murray, in the last year of (his) deal, he should look at that. For a guy like Vlade, who wants more than the mid-level, the only way to do it is to do a sign-and-trade or do it with a team that has cap room.?

Under the rules of the new collective bargaining agreement, if Radmanovic is traded, the team he goes to loses his ?Bird rights,? meaning it can pay him only up to the mid-level exception of an estimated $5 million next summer.

With Seattle holding Radmanovic?s Bird rights, it could pay him whatever it wanted. Or, it could construct a sign-and-trade deal with another team and get something in return.

The new collective bargaining agreement also allows players who have signed one-year tender offers, as Radmanovic did for $3.2 million, to veto any trade they do not want.

?If we lose our Bird rights, we lose a bargaining chip, and so do the Sonics,? Bauman said. ?The Sonics could probably get more in a sign-and-trade (next summer) then they could right now.?