Before deciding where Derek Fisher will play, agent Mark Bartelstein said Fisher will continue to focus foremost on determining precisely where his daughter Tatum can receive the best care.
     
"People are making it seem like this is about money," Bartelstein said Thursday, "but just the exact opposite is true.
     
"We haven't talked about money with anybody," the Chicago-based agent added. "I was asked by a reporter in Los Angeles what I thought Derek was worth, and my answer was 'worth a lot more than the midlevel,' because he just walked away from that. But we haven't asked for anything from anybody. His interest right now is finding the right place for his daughter, and then we'll go from there."
     
Fisher, who would have made $6.37 million next season, could perhaps find a team willing to pay midlevel-exception money, which is a multiyear contract beginning at about $5.8 million in 2007-08.

According to The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, unidentified sources have "said Fisher, among other teams, would consider the (Cleveland Cavaliers) because of the highly regarded Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center."
     
The Memphis Grizzlies are "interested" and "will explore the possibility of adding" Fisher, a native of nearby Little Rock, Ark., The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported. At the renowned St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, a posting on the facility's Web site says scientists and physicians there "work in tandem to translate laboratory discoveries into cures for retinoblastoma."
     
"I also hear that Miami is a possible destination for Derek Fisher, though he'll most likely be a Laker next year," blogged Ivan Carter, the Washington Post's Washington Wizards beat writer.
     
It appears Fisher ideally would want to live and work in New York, where since May his twin daughter has received cutting-edge treatment through The Retinoblastoma Program of the Ophthalmic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
     
Earlier this week there, Tatum underwent what Bartelstein said the Fisher family hopes to be the final chemotherapy treatment she will need.
     
"It went well," the agent said.
     
Meanwhile, the Newark Star-Ledger reported Bartelstein spoke this week with Knicks assistant general manager Glen Grunwald. "Obviously, Derek would have a lot of interest in New York," Bartelstein told the newspaper. The Star-Ledger, though, called the possibility of Fisher actually signing with New York "probably a bit remote," since the Knicks "have 17 players on the roster and are stocked at guard."