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Free-agent shooting guard Courtney Lee has agreed to a four-year deal with the New York Knicks, sources told ESPNs Ian Begley.The deal is worth approximately $48 million, sources say, with all four years guaranteed.?Basketball Insiders first reported Lees decision to agree with the team.Lee, 30, has played for six different teams in eight NBA seasons. He averaged 8.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 30.2 minutes per game in 28 appearances -- all starts -- for the Charlotte Hornets in 2015-16. He was acquired from the?Grizzlies in a three-team swap at the February trade deadline.Lees deal with the Knicks would not have happened without Joakim Noah, a source close to Lee told Begley. Lee had several offers to decide from and chose New York in part because of Noahs recruitment. The free-agent center and the Knicks agreed Friday on a four-year, $72 million deal, league sources told ESPNs Ramona Shelburne.Courtney understands what playing for the New York Knicks means, the source said. He wanted to play in New York, and Joakim Noah was instrumental in recruiting him. Would not have happened without Joakim. Courtney couldnt be more excited.The Knicks had also showed interest in guards Eric Gordon, Austin Rivers and Evan Turner, sources say. Rivers agreed to a three-year, $35 million deal to return to the Los Angeles Clippers, sources told Shelburne, shortly after Lee agreed with the Knicks. Gordon reached a 4-year, $53 million agreement with the Houston Rockets, sources confirmed to ESPNs Chris Broussard.Lee earned a raise during a summer in which contracts increased due to a salary-cap increase. He earned $5.7 million in the final year of a four-year, $21 million deal he originally signed as part of a sign-and-trade swap that delivered him to the Celtics in July 2012. Lee spent little more than a season in Boston before being traded to Memphis in January 2014.Lee started all seven of the Hornets games in the 2016 playoffs, averaging 8.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists over 36.7 minutes per contest. He shot 44.4 percent from beyond the 3-point arc, but only 41.2 percent from the floor overall.Lee, the 22nd pick of the Orlando Magic in the 2008 draft, is the quintessential 3-and-D player. He has shot 38.4 percent on 3s in his career.Will Harris Youth Jersey . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Kenny Golladay Youth Jersey . 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The U.S. wrestler and retired mixed martial artist says he was visiting his brothers farm in Saskatchewan and decided he wanted to hear what the premier had to say.Collating a list of the top 20 moments in Indian sport is both an exercise in celebration and an invitation to argument. How can achievements by individuals be rated against those of teams? How can athletes be ranked across generations, competitions, genders? What marks greatness - results alone or impact of personality?Do the vast distances of history unfairly blur the past when it is regarded against the high-definition sharpness of modern sporting achievement?ESPN India decided to go down this potentially tricky road as a means of saluting the richness, variety and breadth - often overlooked - of Indias sporting history.When the idea first came into being, we on the sites staff drew up our own personal lists of top 20 Indian sporting moments and then had a lengthy debate. We were each surprised by what the others among us remembered as significant, and there were passionately argued reasons for each nomination. The initial (very) longlist went way beyond 75, and before we made up out a shortlist for a jury, we believed we had Indian sport covered.We then reached out to our jury - competitors and achievers, pioneers across disciplines and thinkers about sport at large, as well as respected journalists across a range of sports. They informed us about what and whom we had left out, arguing equally forcefully over events and people.Which of the Olympic hockey golds should feature on a shortlist: the first ever? The first by India as an independent country? Or the one where they beat Pakistan in 1964? Can you leave out India getting to the 1966 Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia, the strongest Davis Cup team in the events history?If WWE fans heard the stories about the Great Gama, they would gawp. How could anyone forget the peerless Sriram Singh, whose 800m record still stands? Or the charismatic, cool snooker player OB Agarwal, who broke the stranglehold the Anglo-centric nations had on the World Amateur Snooker Championship in 1984 and was claimed by cancer before he was 40?Finally all the jury rankings were in and each sporting event given points based on where it featured on a jury members ranking system: 20 points for each No. 1 ranking, 19 for a No. 2, and so on. Our top 20 were arrived at by adding up these points.We discovered that while Indians might be considered sluggish recorders of their athletic history, our individual memories endure beyond the erosion that time inflicts and the fatigue that cynicism brings. It is why the power of KD Jadhavs Olympic medal in 1952 lives through the ages.No matter who has finished in the top 20 or outside it, this compilation of the Top 20 Moments in Indian Sport has been revelatory, inspiring and humbling to us.One of our jurors, golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, was competing in an event in Mauritius when we tracked him down for his list. Jeev toldd us he found it tough to draw one up, saying, They are each of them champions, winners in their own fields; to rank them by numbers, that feels unfair - its just not fair.dddddddddddd We appreciated the sentiment - and began debating all over again.Whether you agree or disagree with the rankings, we hope you enjoy reading the stories and remember some of Indias most astonishing athletes and the history they created.THE JURYTom Alter, actor, sports enthusiast and writer. K Arumugam, veteran hockey journalist. Sambit Bal, editor in chief, ESPN India and ESPNcricinfo. Vasudevan Baskaran, captain of the Indian hockey team at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Bishan Singh Bedi former India cricket captain. Rohit Brijnath sportswriter with the Straits Times and co-author of Abhinav Bindras autobiography, A Shot at History. Venkatesan Devarajan, Indian boxing bronze medallist at the 1994 World Cup in Bangkok. Rahul Dravid, former India cricket captain; coach of the Under-19 team. Cedric DSouza, former coach of the Indian hockey team, currently head coach of the Austrian team. Gulu Ezekiel, veteran sportswriter and collector of sporting memorabilia. Michael Ferreira, three-time world amateur billiards champion. Jayaditya Gupta, executive editor, ESPN India and ESPNcricinfo. Gaurav Kalra, senior editor, ESPN India and ESPNcricinfo. Novy Kapadia, Indian sports broadcaster and journalist. Manisha Malhotra, former national tennis champion and Asian Games silver medallist. KP Mohan, veteran sports journalist specialising in athletics and other Olympic sports. Jaidip Mukerjea, former India Davis Cup captain; member of the 1966 team that reached the final. Ashwini Nachappa, former national sprint champion and founder of the Clean Sports India initiative. Aparna Popat, former Commonwealth Games badminton champion. Debayan Sen, senior assistant editor, ESPN India. Ronojoy Sen, author of Nation At Play: A History of Sport In India. Geet Sethi, Nine-time world billiards champion, Asian Games gold medallist. Charu Sharma, commentator; founder of the Pro Kabaddi League. Sanjay Sharma, former badminton player; currently a commentator on the sport. Suma Shirur, Olympic shooting finalist and Asian Games and Commonwealth Games medalist. Jagbir Singh, hockey commentator and coach; played at two Olympics (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992). Jeev Milkha Singh, professional golfer; first Indian on the European PGA tour. Mansher Singh, former national trap shooting champion and Asian Games triple-silver medallist. Rupinder Singh, foremost Indian commentator on athletics. Sharda Ugra, senior editor, ESPN India and ESPNcricinfo. IM Vijayan, former international footballer with 40 goals in 79 matches for India. ' ' '