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The New York Knicks have emerged as the strong favorite to sign free-agent big man Joakim Noah, according to league sources.Sources told ESPN that multiple teams interested in Noah have all but conceded that the Knicks are his runaway preferred destination.The Knicks meeting with Noah will be Friday afternoon, league sources said.No deals can be officially signed until July 7, but teams and free agents can start coming to verbal agreements on contracts ?starting Friday at 12:01 a.m.?Noah, a former All-Star center, is scheduled to meet with Knicks president Phil Jackson on Friday, according to sources.There is significant interest on both sides. Noah, a native New Yorker, had expressed strong interest in signing with the Knicks in recent days, sources say. He is close with Carmelo Anthony and Derrick Rose, his former teammate in Chicago, who said last week that he would like Noah to join him in New York.The Knicks are eager to land a center this offseason. They have prioritized the position in free agency after trading Robin Lopez, last years starting center, to Chicago in the Rose trade.Noah, 31, is coming off a 2015-16 season filled with injury. He suffered two significant shoulder injuries that limited him to 29 games last season, missing almost a month with a left shoulder tear and undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a left shoulder dislocation in January. He has spent a portion of his summer at The Peak Performance Project in Santa Barbara, California.He has been outspoken in years past about how much he loves Chicago, and there is still some hope within his camp that he will stay with the Bulls, but the likely option is that Noah will take a big-money deal from a team and look for a new start.Im very focused on free agency, Noah said in June, according to international website Sportando. I spent the last 10 years in Chicago. There were good moments and bad moments, but now I have an incredible opportunity for a player, being recruited by a team. I definitely want to live that kind of experience. Its new for me, but its something very intriguing for a player.The Knicks have roughly $30 million to spend in free agency and hope to fit Noah into that space while keeping enough room to add a starting shooting guard. Courtney Lee and Eric Gordon are among the guards the Knicks have a level of interest in, sources say.Some members of the Knicks organization expressed optimism earlier in the week about getting an audience with free agent Kevin Durant. But if the club comes to terms quickly with Noah, its unlikely that it will have the requisite cap space to sign Durant to a max contract. The Knicks are currently not among the teams that have secured a meeting with Durant.Information from ESPN staff writer Nick Friedell was used in this report. Luke Bolton Jersey . 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The cheesy but solid Protoss lost in a landslide in grand finals, but he proved to be a threat in the new patch for the foreseeable future. Stats looked every bit the part of a contender throughout the weekend.Game 1: Vaani Research StationINnoVation struck first on the first map with perfect counter play against Stats strategy to go to the air early. Stats timing attacks with Phoenix and Adepts put him behind INnoVations bio counter and he relinquished both the Protoss macro potential on Vaani Research Station and the map control. INnoVation demonstrated patience when he finally unleashed his stimmed bio army against the weaker ground forces of Stats for the quick victory.INnoVation 1:0 StatsGame 2: Habitation StationStats attempted a bit of a cheesy opener for early aggression aagainst INnoVation with a proxy Stargate and fast Oracles.dddddddddddd Unfortunately, INnoVations defense and response were perfectly timed. The cheese was thwarted by scouting and defensive structures at the main base and a timed defensive counter to the aggression on Stats expansion. INnoVation would counter-attack with multiple drops on the main mining base, the defensive front, and even the armies of Stats. INnoVation split up Stats forces and continued to mount relentless pressure until he pushed for the victory before the research of Psionic Storm was finished for Stats.INnoVation 2:0 StatsGame 3: WhirlwindStats went for another proxy Stargate on the bigger map, Whirlwind, to throw off INnoVations better late game strategies and play. Stats went for an all-in with Void Rays to potentially steal a victory on map three, but INnoVations scouting and defense were too quick. INnoVation set up bunkers with reinforcements to battle the push and took enough casualties for the 3-0.INnoVation 3:0 StatsGame 4: EchoUnexpectedly, INnoVation answered Stats cheesy openers with one of his own. A proxy Barracks and Factory next to the expansion of Stats caught him by surprise and dealt irreparable economic damage. Stats pulled all his workers from his main base, but INnoVations Cyclone and bio rush proved too lethal. INnoVations micro and unforeseen opener crushed the map and took down the set.INnoVation 4:0 Stats ' ' '