The AP has the details, via ESPN.
And yes, that was Thunder center Nenad Krstic who threw the chair.
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Frank Isola of the New York Daily News writes that the Knicks may not have the assets to coax the Nuggets into a trade:
“What do they have?” a Nuggets source said. “That makes it tough.”
There are reports that the Knicks’ offer would include Eddy Curry’s expiring contract, a future first-round pick and Danilo Gallinari, although Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni will try to replace Gallinari with Wilson Chandler in a proposed trade for Anthony.
No, I don’t think Gallinari and Curry are enough. And I certainly don’t think that Chandler and Curry are enough. But what upping the ante with Anthony Randolph, who has displayed some considerable potential in two up-and-down years playing for the schizophrenic Don Nelson?
If I’m running the Nuggets and the Rockets offer Kevin Martin and the Knicks’ two first round picks (acquired in the T-Mac trade), then I’m leaning Houston, even if they’re in the same conference. Of course, Rockets GM Daryl Morey won’t make that kind of an offer unless Anthony agrees to sign an extension as a part of the trade.
Karl, Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Nene and — I’ve decided, upon further review — Martin, Andersen and J.R. Smith have earned one more turn together.
Let’s find out if they can pick up where they left off six months ago and win again. If they can’t, six months from now, people can break up the Nuggets.
Carmelo can be traded.
At the end of the season, Martin and Smith’s contracts will expire; the Nuggets will have the option on Billups’ final year, and Anthony can walk away as a free agent if he’s not been traded by then. Let him go. Don’t burn jerseys. He will have given the Nuggets eight entertaining, controversial and winning seasons.
The Nuggets would be freed of almost $65 million in cap space (and Nene will have only one more season of an $11.6 mil salary) — and could start over, and go sign free agents and draft players in the first round once more. Besides, who knows what will become of the collective bargaining disagreement by then?
Sure, the Nuggets may be a 55-win team when everything goes their way, and maybe they have another Western Conference Finals run in them, but the big question is — are the Nuggets really a threat to the Lakers?
Because I know how this wait-and-see strategy is going to go. In February, the Nuggets are probably going to be somewhere in the #2-#4 range in the West, and they aren’t going to want to trade their best player away. Anthony will be happy because the team is winning and he’s resigned himself to another few months in Denver, and he won’t be talking about free agency.
But when the Nuggets inevitably lose in the playoffs, it will all start up again. At that point, the franchise will have lost whatever leverage they had. They will not be able to get anything (or much) in return because the Knicks will have the cap space to sign him.
So why not get the best deal you can now?
Want good young players? The Knicks have reportedly offered Danilo Gallinari and Eddy Curry’s expiring contract. Would they add Anthony Randolph to the deal if it meant they could lock up Carmelo long-term? I think they would.
Want draft picks? The Rockets could offer Kevin Martin and two first rounders that they got from the Knicks as part of the Tracy McGrady trade. If the Knicks don’t land Anthony, there’s a good chance that both of those will be lottery picks. If it all works out, there’s a chance the Nuggets could add three good players to a core that would presumably include Ty Lawson.
Knowing when to start the rebuilding process is one of the toughest things for a franchise to do and it’s often a painful, confusing process. If the Nuggets don’t trade Carmelo this summer, they may very well come to regret it.
Months of trade speculation have gone by and now Rudy Fernandez is officially asking out of his contract so that he can return to Spain. His agent Andy Miller is making that perfectly clear. Per The Columbian…
“There’s nothing to fix,” Miller said. “He does not want to come back to the NBA.”
“This is not a bluff,” Miller said. “In his mind, he’s not coming back.”
Miller said he has attempted to be fair and reasonable with the Blazers during negotiations. But after waiting
months for Portland to make a move, the “light is out.”
“In my mind, we’re at a very unnecessary juncture,” Miller said. “I’m certainly not happy as an NBA agent that this is happening.”
The Oregonian has more details…
Rudy Fernandez will not report to the Trail Blazers training camp in October and the disgruntled guard has no intention of playing for the Blazers for the remaining two years of his contract, his agent said Wednesday.
Fernandez, 25, is unhappy with his role and is frustrated with the offensive style of coach Nate McMillan, whom he says limits him to just a shooter, and not the playmaker he has shown he can be in international play.
Miller said new Blazers general manager Rich Cho has “overreached” in his attempt to trade Fernandez, turning down offers from Chicago, New York and Boston, leaving Miller and Fernandez with no option other than to hold firm that the former first-round pick will not report.
“All I can do now is stand on the roof top and scream ‘He’s not coming!’,” Miller said. “He’s just not coming back … I’ve made that clear.”
“Why would anyone want to hold anyone against their will?” Miller asked. “He’s not going to want to practice, he’s not going to want to be around his teammates. I mean, if they thought he was difficult when he was contributing, imagine how difficult he will be when he is not.”
Last week, I examined Fernandez’s case that he should get more playing time, and found that it wasn’t all that strong. He certainly hasn’t been the guy that we saw play so well in the 2008 Olympics, but then again, the NBA is a different animal. Fernandez has far more freedom when he plays for Spain than he does in Portland, and clearly he craves that kind of responsibility.
For his part, new Portland GM Rich Cho is taking a hard line with Fernandez and has said repeatedly that he’s not going to make a trade just to make a trade. But now Fernandez isn’t asking for a trade. He wants to leave the NBA altogether — will the Blazers let him out of his contract?
Who knows if these are real, they can CGI anything these days…
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