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Jeremy Lin agrees to terms on offer sheet [Update: Lin officially signs]

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by dachuda86, Jul 5, 2012.

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Do you want Lin's contract matched

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  1. Aruba77

    Aruba77 Contributing Member

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    It's the freaking New York Post bro! why not quote the National Enquirer?

    It's the same paper that employs this man ...

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    need i say more?
     
    #441 Aruba77, Jul 11, 2012
  2. hooroo

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    NY matches but if Lin can't mesh with Melo they trade him to a team like the Mavs for example.
     
    #442 hooroo, Jul 11, 2012
  3. glimmertwins

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    Lin must not have been following Rockets transactions over the last several years. Morey is the CLASSIC 'wait for someone else to set the price on a restricted free agent' guy. Every RFA we have had has been offended by that. It's nothing personal - it's just good business.
     
    #443 glimmertwins, Jul 11, 2012
  4. swyyyguy

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    so has jeremy lin officially signed the offer sheet yet?
     
    #444 swyyyguy, Jul 11, 2012
  5. smw6230

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    The NY Daily News is trolling. Lin is a Harvard man and I suspect he understands basic math and leverage.

    The worst thing in the world for him would have been a Knicks offer. Per the rules of the salary cap NY could only have offered a max 4/24 contract. That's it, they could't offer him a penny more.

    The actually did him a favor in telling him to go out and sign the best offer sheet he can, which could have been 4/40 million, and that they'd match it.

    Lin will be making far more than the Knicks could have paid him by signing the offer sheet with Houston. He knows that. His agent most certainly knows that and wouldn't have let him sign a Knicks sheet. The Knicks know that and the NY Daily News knows that. The News is just looking to create a story.
     
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    would you say the same about corey maggette since he went to duke?
     
    #446 swyyyguy, Jul 11, 2012
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    Difference being Maggette didn't even finish a semester at Duke while Lin graduated from Harvard.
     
    #447 smw6230, Jul 11, 2012
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    Maggette isn't Asian
     
    #448 liljojo, Jul 11, 2012
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    he is a black?
     
    #449 Sajan, Jul 11, 2012
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    i would rather have jeremy lin than goran tragic. you know what you have with dragic. he pretty much is what he is with maybe a miniscule amount of improvement ash he gets even more minutes. Lin has much greater upside & will bring more excitement. what's surprising is the number of knicks fans who didnt care if they lost him or not. i mean what a buncha ingrates. Its as if they forgot what a pathetic state they were in before lin emerged.
     
    #450 Bublanski, Jul 11, 2012
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    Check the grassy knoll... :p
     
    #451 BEARCLAW, Jul 11, 2012
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    Morey did not offer Lin $15 mil in last year because he would not pay that much
     
    #452 TMac&Cheese, Jul 11, 2012
  13. psingh34

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    any reason to think that he is not? he was smart enough to get scola from the spurs no less .. smart enough to trade a crapped out tmac for picks and kmartin.... smart enough to use the summer league success of green to get artest (helped us win a playoff series) smart enough to get dragic for brooks ..
     
    #453 psingh34, Jul 11, 2012
  14. psingh34

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    haha right on! lets completely overlook the fact that giving lin 15 million for one year would be grossly overpaying for him .. lets just assume bc he didnt get 15 million that it was a consipiracy
     
    #454 psingh34, Jul 11, 2012
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rockets trade of Kyle Lowry now official. Camby up soon. After those approved, can sign the Asik, Lin offer sheets.</p>&mdash; Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/223079492640448512" data-datetime="2012-07-11T15:41:10+00:00">July 11, 2012</a></blockquote>
    <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     
    #455 mic, Jul 11, 2012
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    Where did this $15 mil come from? No team is stupid enough to pay that kind of money. The offer was for 4 years 30 mil with a team option for the last year. What's there not to like? Only about $18 mil guaranteed over 3 years.
     
    #456 kmart9419, Jul 11, 2012
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Wrote this before, but worth repeating: Knicks could not have given Lin same $ that Houston did. Lin got better deal because of Rockets.</p>&mdash; Howard Beck (@HowardBeckNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowardBeckNYT/status/223080286869667840" data-datetime="2012-07-11T15:44:19+00:00">July 11, 2012</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Most Knicks could have offered Lin was about $23.6 mil. Houston offer that NY will match is $28.8 mil. Playing the market was smart move.</p>&mdash; Howard Beck (@HowardBeckNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowardBeckNYT/status/223080823639908352" data-datetime="2012-07-11T15:46:27+00:00">July 11, 2012</a></blockquote>
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    #457 jsmee2000, Jul 11, 2012
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    NY tabloids trying to drum up Lin-drama.
     
    #458 hooroo, Jul 11, 2012
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lol why do u guys believe everything? No quotes from me = probably not true</p>&mdash; Jeremy Lin (@JLin7) <a href="https://twitter.com/JLin7/status/223093429947740161" data-datetime="2012-07-11T16:36:33+00:00">July 11, 2012</a></blockquote>
    <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     
    #459 mic, Jul 11, 2012
  20. dreamshakin

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    Lol jeremy lin. Is he going to have a TV special on espn coming up?
     
    #460 dreamshakin, Jul 11, 2012
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