An RFA being offered only a single contract and having his team not match is the same as a guy with multiple offers choosing one over the other?
What's funny is that as bad as he's supposedly playing in PHX, McHale and co. would blow their load if they could get Gogi back. McHale and Sampson love Gogi. Lin? They wouldn't give two ****s if he was gone.
Lin isn't cheaper. His contract (and cap value) is $8.3M/year Dragic's is $7.5M/year, but does have a player option in year 4. I don't think the difference is huge, but Dragic plays better off the ball than Lin. Lin is figuring out how to co-exist with Harden, but his poor 3-point shooting doesn't make him the ideal off guard when Harden is dominating the ball.
Curry with 27pts and they still lost... You'd think they'd want revenge after what we did to them in Toyota Center, LMAO.
Every single one of the Suns offseason moves pointed towards them eagerly jumping up on the mediocrity treadmill the Rockets were trying to escape - they signed Michael Beasley right before Dragic, they grabbed Scola a few days later). Either tank or leave yourself flexibility to get a star the way the rockets did- the SUns were doing neither, as the player option extended to Dragic indicated. We knew this, he shoudl have too.
You missed the point entirely. These guys have a short career window - they should all be trying to make as much $$$ as they can, especially if they are not superstar players. Nothing wrong with what Lin or Gogi did, they did what they had to.. DD
Lin didn't even have any choice to make or anything he could do this past offseason, so I don't understand why you are bringing it up. You can make the argument that Dragic was justified in walking away from Houston over the 4th year player option, but what on earth does Lin's offseason have to do with it? And why do you feel the need to say that they're the same? At least wait 3 years until Lin reaches the point in his career where he can actually make choices about where he plays before accusing him of placing money over loyalty the way Dragic did.
You still missed the point entirely. Lin had ONE offer. He took it. Knicks never offered. They just said get what you can and we'll match. Dragic was courted by many, we know of at least two offers, and he took the bigger one.
One difference is that HOU actually managed to be mediocre, a .500 team, while PHX ended up just crappy. PHX thought they were an Eric Gordin away from being good. Kind of doubtful that he makes that much of a difference to a .300 team.
Sure, but that's exactly why he shouldn't have complained. You can't have both ways, take care of yourself? Then take care of your play too.
Nope. Grunwald wanted Lin to set his "Market Value" http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/free_agent_market_calls_for_linsanity_SCwaQXW6q2WKZe1TVdfAkL
This mis-characterizes the situation. Lin was a RFA... that ruled the process. Dragic was not. As such, we can't be 100% clear on how many offers or near offers Lin had.. .which he didn't sign. The Rockets offer he signed was the best. By the same token, I don't recall Dragic getting multiple offers either. There's the one he signed, and the rumor that DM would have kept him without the player option, but who knows. But even with the RFA tag, you might recall there was a LOT of back and forth in the media, assumingly amongst management and agents, with both the Rockets and Knicks. And while it isn't 100% clear what actually happened, it sure seemed like when it came down to that last day, Lin and his agent successfully, smartly and logically - but greedily - leveraged the fact that the Knicks might match to get a seemingly better deal from the Rockets. This article sums it up a bit: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...et-worth-25-1-million-years-article-1.1114302 In particular, note the language: Friday's stunning development was the offer changing.
Well, Lin negotiating an improved, 3-year contract after the Knicks already said they'll match the 4-year one simply screams loyalty.
Correction Lin had 1 year qualifying offer from Knicks at around 1 million. This standard move for team to retain matching rights.
