Al Harrington not coming to the Bulls

After striking a deal earlier Friday to ship guard Jamal Crawford to Golden State for forward Al Harrington, Walsh reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Clippers that will shed Zach Randolph's long contract from the Knicks' payroll.

The second deal of the day announced by the Knicks packages Randolph and Mardy Collins to the Clippers for veterans Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley.

All three of the players coming to the Knicks -- Harrington, Thomas and Mobley -- have contracts which expire before the highly anticipated free-agent summer of 2010, when the likes of LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade are expected to be on the open market.

Donnie Walsh and Mike D'Antoni are brazen enough to think they can sign LeBron, Chris Bosh and Steve Nash for his last hurrah when the bidding opens, oh, about 575 days from now.

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Remember that warning we ran last week from our Team USA insider about the likes of James and Bosh or Bosh and Dwyane Wade wanting to play together full time? "All of these players," he said, "want to play with each other in the NBA."