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The New York Knicks didn't have a lottery pick Thursday night but made their own draft-night splash by acquiring Portland big man Zach Randolph.
The Knicks and Trail Blazers reached agreement on a deal that swaps Randolph and teammates Dan au and Fred Jones for guard Steve Francis and Channing Frye.
"We felt like with Zach, he's a heck of a player. He's probably going to be an All-Star in the East. But with [Greg] Oden and LaMarcus [Aldridge] and Channing Frye we have a group of young guys we can build around. ... We felt we were going in a different direction,'' Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard said.
"We really felt we had to give those two guys [Oden and Aldridge] a chance to develop," Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. "And the only way to do that is to get out and play."
Francis has only two seasons left on his contract, worth just over $34 million, but possesses the option to become a free agent after next season. The Blazers, however, are planning to buy out Francis' contract and make him a free agent this summer, sources said.
Yet even if they changed course and decided to keep Francis, his arrival would still provide Portland with some long-term payroll relief, since Randolph has four seasons left on his contract worth more than $61 million.
Randolph averaged 23.6 points and 10.1 rebounds in a breakout season in 2006-07 but has faced an uncertain future in Portland since late May, when Portland won the No. 1 overall pick in the draft lottery and the right to select Greg Oden. But the Blazers, who continue to put a premium on good citizenship after years of turmoil, prefer to jettison Randolph and build around a front line of Oden and LaMarcus Aldridge.
But neither Randolph's troubled off-court past nor the fact that New York already has a low-post presence in Eddy Curry appears to concern Knicks president Isiah Thomas.
your thread belongs in the NEGRO PLEASE section of the XXL magazine
Zach is crazy mf. He has chance to kill someone as much as he does to win nba le.
fillmoe, ing hilarious
anyway, yes, i am so happy to see randolph with the knicks and no whiteboy, zach randolph is not a crazy mofo ready to go off on someone
in the eastern conference, this is not a complete impossibility
I think the knicks now have the worst defensive 4-5 combo in the league now. Its gonna be a cakewalk to the basket.
50 points a night on both ends of the floor.
Is Fillmoe really banned? we should throw a party
Why did I even bother to look in this thread
they free up fryes number....
rashard lewis in the works, i knew it
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