Rudy Fer­nan­dez

Rudy Fer­nan­dez con­tin­ues to lobby for a trade to New York, but the Knicks either can not or will not make a trade for the Port­land shoot­ing guard.

Accord­ing to a team source, Knicks pres­i­dent Don­nie Walsh recently rejected a three-team deal that would have sent Anthony Ran­dolph to Indi­ana, a first-round pick to Port­land and Fer­nan­dez to New York.

Because the Trail Blaz­ers are insist­ing on receiv­ing a first-round pick in return for Fer­nan­dez, the Knicks likely need to recruit a third team in order to com­plete a deal.

NY Daily News

David Lee

David Lee has agreed to a six-year, $80 mil­lion deal with the War­riors via a sign-and-trade, accord­ing to mul­ti­ple sources.

The Knicks are will receive Anthony Ran­dolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike back in return.

Golden State and New York had worked on the frame­work of a deal dur­ing the day on Thurs­day that was con­tin­gent on the deci­sion of LeBron James.

Real GM

David Lee

Golden State is close to a sign-and-trade with the Knicks that would bring Lee to the War­riors. The War­riors would send Anthony Ran­dolph and a few other pieces to New York for Lee.

Of course, the Knicks will not do any­thing with Lee until they know for sure what LeBron James is doing, but the War­riors seem to be the front run­ner if New York does swing a sign-and-trade.

Lee’s laissez-faire approach to defense would seem­ingly fit well with the War­riors’ offensive-minded scheme, and team­ing Lee with a back­court of Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry would give Golden State a for­mi­da­ble array of scorers.

Roto Wire

Anthony Ran­dolph

The Tim­ber­wolves and War­riors have dis­cussed a trade that would send for­ward Anthony Ran­dolph to Min­nesota, accord­ing to sources. Noth­ing is immi­nent, but the Tim­ber­wolves are inter­ested in acquir­ing Randolph.

Golden State has the sixth pick in this month’s NBA Draft and would like to move up. Min­nesota has the fourth selection.

In Decem­ber it was reported that the War­riors were shop­ping Ran­dolph, but noth­ing was ever agreed upon.

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Anthony Ran­dolph

War­riors for­ward Anthony Ran­dolph may be out for a sig­nif­i­cant period of time after suf­fer­ing an ankle injury on Fri­day night against the Kings.

After the game, Golden State announced that X-rays showed Ran­dolph suf­fered a sprain and a pos­si­ble fracture.

Sources revealed that the pre­lim­i­nary diag­no­sis is a frac­ture and he would be out four to six weeks.

Ran­dolph was try­ing to con­test a shot by Kings for­ward Jason Thomp­son when he landed awk­wardly on his ankle.

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Corey Maggette

Golden State War­riors gen­eral man­ager Larry Riley said he is weary of all the trade rumors hang­ing over his team and claims he is not shop­ping any player — despite rum­blings through­out the NBA indi­cat­ing otherwise.

One NBA exec­u­tive said the War­riors are “try­ing to unload” for­ward Corey Maggette (no sur­prise, given his mam­moth con­tract) and would trade young for­ward Anthony Ran­dolph for “the right veteran.”

Fan­Na­tion

Cleve­land Cavaliers

The Cavs are tar­get­ing sev­eral play­ers believed to be on the trade mar­ket. Mul­ti­ple sources said the team has been in touch about the following:

Anthony Ran­dolph, War­riors: The young, tall and tal­ented Ran­dolph has been an enigma. He has had some excel­lent games but has had steady run-ins with War­riors coach Don Nel­son and his play­ing time has varied.

Troy Mur­phy, Pac­ers: Accord­ing to mul­ti­ple sources, there us an inter­est from both par­ties for the pro­to­typ­i­cal stretch forward.

Antawn Jami­son, Wiz­ards: Right now Wash­ing­ton, says a league exec­u­tive, is not ready to do any­thing with its ros­ter despite a poor start.

HoopsWorld

Anthony Ran­dolph

Reports that the Golden State War­riors are will­ing to trade second-year for­ward Anthony Ran­dolph do not bother him at all, accord­ing to his agent.

“If Golden State wants to trade Anthony, we’re not opposed to that,” his agent, Bill Duffy, said.

“He hasn’t asked for or demanded a trade, but if the War­riors feel it would be ben­e­fi­cial to them to trade him, we wouldn’t be opposed to that at all.”

In fact, oth­ers close to the 20-year-old Ran­dolph say he would be pleased to get a fresh start elsewhere.

HoopsWorld

Anthony Ran­dolph

A num­ber of NBA teams say that the War­riors are offer­ing up for­ward Anthony Ran­dolph in trade discussions.

Golden State has had a love-hate rela­tion­ship with Ran­dolph, who they have at times con­sid­ered untouchable.

“The War­riors are will­ing to do any­thing and every­thing,” one West­ern Con­fer­ence offi­cial said.

Ran­dolph is aver­ag­ing 11.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this season.

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Anthony Ran­dolph

War­riors coach Don Nel­son said Wednes­day that Anthony Randolph’s future might be as a center.

Ran­dolph is listed at 6-foot-11 but says he’s closer to 7– foot. He once was con­sid­ered the team’s long-term solu­tion at power for­ward, and many believed that he could develop into a “3” with his assort­ment of skills.

No one seems to know what to make of the second-year player anymore.

“He’s prob­a­bly taller than any­body I’ve got on the team right now, and he’s still grow­ing, they tell me,” Nel­son said. “Maybe, even­tu­ally, cen­ter will be his posi­tion. I don’t know.”

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