Knicks Still Trying To Trade For Rudy (Ball Don't Lie)

[ABM]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...ll-trying-to-trade-for-Rudy-Fe?urn=nba-274926

..............Things have become clearer since late July. For me? Well, I've learned that weddings are expensive and that mine will likely preclude me from ever driving a car I enjoy riding in. And in Rudy Fernandez terms? Try to trade for the guy, sure, because he can play. But don't invest too much.

And today, word hit that the Knicks are really, really interested in investing too much. And that the Trail Blazers and Rich Cho are still cool to everyone's advances.

From the New York Daily News:

Meanwhile, Walsh would have a chance to pry Rudy Fernandez away from Portland with a first-round pick. The questions the Knicks had concerning Wilson Chandler's(notes) recovery from offseason surgery are one reason why the club has explored the possibility of acquiring Fernandez, the disgruntled shooting guard who is in camp with the Trail Blazers after threatening to return to Spain.

How well Chandler progresses during the preseason will determine whether the Knicks revisit talks with the Blazers. According to a team source, Walsh tested the waters last month by offering Portland two future second-round picks in addition to one of the two players the Knicks picked in the second round in June -- Andy Rautins(notes) or Landry Fields(notes).

The Blazers rejected the deal and have summarily turned down trade offers from Boston and Chicago as well.


Three second-round picks. Two of your own choosing, and then one of your own choosing that has already been chosen by the Knicks. Sounds like market value for a guy who wants nothing to do with the NBA.

I can understand both sides to an extent. Second-round picks, in the right hands, can really help a team, but Portland is right to hang onto the guy who can actually play right now, however mopish. And the Knicks?

Rudy can play, and you have to at least try to chase him down, but why commit even this much to a player who is just counting the days until his contract expires?

I get that second-round picks don't have the same cachet in this league as lower-rung picks do in the NFL, but while you want to make a splash this year -- Rudy isn't long for this league. And he'll keep the long face, while he's in this league.

And while I respect his game, adding Rudy for picks isn't turning New York around. It won't secure the playoff berth I think they're capable of grabbing. It will help, slightly, but not enough to give up assets for, especially when those assets (Knicks draft picks, at whatever level) are so hard to come by.

Rudy's going to play out the string, his way. There's no real point in making yourself part of that story.

 

[Ed O]

Doesn't it seem that the Knicks could try to trade their second-rounders for a first that might appeal to Portland? Cash-strapped teams might prefer a pair of seconds to a first.

It's not clear what Portland wants, of course, so mid-to-late first rounder might not be enough value for the Blazers to move him.

Ed O.

 

[hasoos]

If Rudy, Bayless and Mathews keep playing together as well as they have so far, it might be moot.

 

[Ed O]

If Rudy, Bayless and Mathews keep playing together as well as they have so far, it might be moot.

I think that there's a chance that Rudy will turn it around and contribute on the floor, and that Cho and Nate know it... which is why they didn't leap at the first chance to dump Rudy for future draft picks that they got.

It's a long season and players tend to get hurt. Having depth does us more good than a couple of second rounders in the future.

Ed O.

 

[hasoos]

I think that there's a chance that Rudy will turn it around and contribute on the floor, and that Cho and Nate know it... which is why they didn't leap at the first chance to dump Rudy for future draft picks that they got.

It's a long season and players tend to get hurt. Having depth does us more good than a couple of second rounders in the future.

Ed O.

Yep I am with you on that. Plus after watching the 3rd string play last night, lets just say I am not really excited to see any of them hit the floor any time soon.