"People don't want to be embarrassed by me because of my skin color" Jeremy Lin

LOL , on another note yeah Lin got a 25 MIL contract, but really come on. The true irony lies within the other basketball players b****ing. They GET PAID millions to do what...play basketball?:grin:

 

Oh, it most certainly does matter what Les wants. I'm not discounting Morey having an appreciation for Lin here. Real or perceived Les enjoyed the benefits Yao provided off the court in terms of growing the Rockets audience. I don't think you can discount Alexender's desire to see the Rockets on nationally televised games. Something Lin brought back to Houston this year. Les isn't about selling t-shirts, he's about growing the brand.

 

Cite source? Was this in the recent CBA? Because I see a lot of articles about X and so team losing a lot of money or whatever.

I know the NFL does revenue sharing but I'm unaware of what degree the NBA does.

 

Revenue sharing is broken down by revenue stream.

National television - shared
Jerseys - shared
Luxury taxes paid - shared
General NBA sponsorship revenue - shared

Local ticket sales - not shared
Local TV/Radio - not shared
In arena merchandise (including jerseys) - not shared
In arena sponsorships (bill boards, etc) - not shared

In other words, Lin adds to the bottom line, but not as much as people think. Assuming he remains a popular player, he will result in some amount of ticket sales, additional sponsors, and some in arena sales.

IF he also happens to help the team to more success, this can also translate into more beneficial broadcasting contracts in Contract years.

Local media deals are multi-year affairs, so any player's greatest impact is if they make the team more successful when that contract is due for renegotiation (higher ratings/desire from fans = better broadcast charge rates from providers). Being successful After a local contract is already signed obviously has limited value.


The impact also ranges tremendously.

For example, the Lakers signed a deal that apparently nets them $200M/year in local media revenues for the next 20 years.

Compare that with the Toronto Raptors who earns approximately $134M/year in TOTAL revenue.

The NBA is truly a league of Have and Have Nots.

 

Yeah that's about the amount of revenue sharing I expected, because otherwise it wouldn't make sense with all the owners saying they can't sustain running their teams while losing huge amounts of amount, Stern talking about possible league contraction, etc.

It really would be great if the NBA was more like the NFL where there was no such thing as a "Superteam", only the fans benefit from a watching perspective, but what kind of league is it if everyone mostly bought merchandise from about 3 teams?

To be fair there has been parity thus far this season. I wish the Grizzlies played in the East so they could play the Heat in a playoff series(off topic).

 

The media hype and contract are partly due to to his skin color. His race is a benefit that outweighs the down, IMO.

 

Lin has already brought in 4 sponsors in 4 months, East West Bank (the largest Chinese American bank in the U.S.), 2 tire companies and one other bank from Taiwan. It's rumored in Asia that the sponsorship deal is $3 millions a year. So 4 sponsors ($12 million) already cover Lin's salary this year ($5 million) and several other starters who are not named Harden.

 

If Lin wasn't Asian he wouldn't be making the money he is now.

 

I don't get why most think his contract is so big. It's only 3 years 25 mil. He was undrafted so he's not under a rookie contract. There's a laundry list of terrible players making more than Lin, even at the guard position....Rodney Stuckey?

 

That is nonsense. How do you know that? If Lin is not Asian he would be highly recruited by Division one power houses, then would be a high first round draft picks, and sign a good rookie contract.

Being Asia has always be something worked against him in his basketball career until the "Linsanity" started, even then, there was still so much racial hatred towards him (JR. Smith's comment).

You are no different from guys like JR. Smith.

 

Les has a factory and shops in China pumping out licensed Rockets/NBA merch. Whatever he makes from those isn't shared with the league.

 

I think you neglect one difference between those superstars and Lin: The respect/intimidation factor other players have toward superstars. Don't you think other players are intimidated by playing Jordan, Kobe or Lebron? Yeah, some may play them harder but I'd bet more are intimidated or starstruck. They lost before they played against Jordan because of his fame. Lin doesn't have this factor because of his race. Everyone wants to show up the Asian kid who dares to invade the blacks' playground and enjoy more fame than blacks do.

All the indiginity about Lin's contract is also tied to his race. $8 million a year is just slighly above average in the league. Lots of players who get paid in that range never get this much print or envy. When was the last time an NBA player dissed another player's contract? Like never? Lin isn't in the "brotherhood" so dissing his contract is acceptable for them.

 

Bullsh!t...

 

why do so many people focus on the contract. what lin is saying refers to much more than that and more that last season or this season.

lin is talking about the pre-conceptions often made about most asian american athletes in general. not just the few asian pro athletes but also the asians on school teams, rec teams and asians that just want to play a game of pick-up.

many of my asian friends say they get weird looks by others as soon as they step on the court. no one thinks they can play and are looked down upon before they even play a game. often times other people either take asians on too lightly at first or try to go out of their way to try and embarass them or try to show them up. thats what lin is talking about as being a target.

lin will still have to deal with the above as well as those that are irked by his contract.

 

Yes and no. His skin color almost prevented him from being an NBA player. It's AFTER he got the chance to prove that he was NBA material then the hype came because of his race. But that hype was more about the story of an underdog (due to his race and other factors) beating the odds than about race per se.

 

It's like saying if Obama wasn't black, he wouldn't have been elected as president.

Okay, I know I am evoking another politically charged topic. But racism IS a politically charged thing. Maybe this thread should be in the D&D.

 

Obama actually may be the best person to calm down any racial talk :grin:

The best family photo ever:

 

I completely agree. We all saw how marketable NBA teams thought Lin was to the asian demographic when he got cut twice and came close to getting cut a third time by the Knicks. The hype would not be this huge if it wasn't a person with his underdog story that came out the starting gates putting up HOF numbers in his first 2 weeks of getting meaningful minutes in the NBA while doing it in the media capital of the world.

 

Chillax bro . you scared of asian horde? yellow peril?

 

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