This September 16, 1962 New York-Chicago cash transaction for Cliff Luyk is retained only as legacy provenance. Basketball-Reference's Knicks, Zephyrs and league transaction ledgers do not record a September 16 deal. They instead agree that six days earlier, on September 10, New York traded Luyk together with Phil Jordon to Chicago for Gene Conley. Luyk's own transaction history records the September 10 trade and no return to New York. He never played an NBA game. The unsupported September 16 record would require Chicago to sell Luyk back to New York almost immediately, yet no team, league or player ledger shows that reversal. Because the September 10 Conley transaction is already represented canonically, this later cash record is structurally superseded rather than graded as a separate trade.
No separate canonical grade is recorded for New York Knicks, Washington Wizards.
The Knicks, Zephyrs and league ledgers do not show a September 16, 1962 cash transaction for Cliff Luyk. They instead agree that Luyk had already been traded to Chicago six days earlier as part of the Gene Conley deal.
Luyk’s transaction record shows the September 10 trade and no immediate return to New York. He never appeared in an NBA game, and the surviving ledgers provide no evidence of the separate cash reversal described by the legacy row.
The verified Conley transaction is already represented canonically. Treating the September 16 line as another completed trade would send the same player back across the same team pair without support from either team ledger or the league transaction record.
This route is retained as legacy provenance so the source conflict remains auditable. It is structurally superseded rather than graded as a second Knicks-Zephyrs trade, and no team grade should be invented for a transaction the evidence does not establish.
Record Superseded This September 16, 1962 New York-Chicago cash transaction for Cliff Luyk is retained only as legacy provenance. Basketball-Reference's Knicks, Zephyrs and league transaction ledgers do not record a September 16 deal.