The Jazz just received the paperwork officially releasing Fisher back from the league office, but the soon-to-be 33-year-old guard has agreed to a three-year, $14 million deal with the Lakers, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported.

Fisher first must clear waivers before he can sign with the Lakers and could be claimed by another team with the salary-cap space to take on his old contract, in which he was to make $6.37 million. Only a handful of teams could do so.

Fisher asked the Jazz to be released from his contract in order to find a team in a city that better met the medical needs of his 1-year-old daughter, Tatum, who is being treated for a rare form of eye cancer.

"We wish him the best," said Kevin O'Connor, the Jazz's senior vice president of basketball operations, "and I hope four games a year he doesn't play well against us."

Only one day after Fisher's emotional press conference in Utah, his former agent Mark Bartelstein was quoted as seeking a new contract with the Lakers, who are in need of a new starting guard.

That raised uncomfortable questions about Fisher's intentions, considering he originally balked at being traded to Utah last summer. Fisher dumped Bartelstein and is now represented by Rob Pelinka, Kobe Bryant's agent.

The Jazz didn't question those intentions because Fisher said he was open to being traded to multiple Eastern Conference teams and was walking away from millions of dollars. Even with his new deal, Fisher stands to lose nearly $7 million.

"We took him at his word - period," O'Connor said.

The Jazz have moved on since Fisher's departure in their search for a new starting shooting guard and backup point guard. O'Connor cited coach Jerry Sloan's favorite adage about "playing forward" in talking to reporters Thursday.

"Maybe we're looking under rocks at something," O'Connor said, adding, "The biggest thing I see is the fact that he asked us because of what his daughter Tatum had and the uncertainty of what he wanted to do and we granted it and we move on.

"If you keep looking back on things, you can second-guess everything and we're not going to do that."