The Knicks never offered him more than qualifying offer and could never offer anything close to what Rockets offered.
lol at all the grade school drama over a freakin jersey number ... only number that should matter is the one on his paycheck
Lin had offers from New York on the table. I don't remember the exact number, but it was a significant offer - they wanted to lock down Lin very badly. Yes they did want Lin to find out his own market value and then match, hence the "low level qualifying offer" that is necessary to grant them matching rights, but to NY total $ was never an issue - it was the poison pill in the 3rd year, and the luxury tax implications that spawned from that, that became the issue. In the current case the Rockets are clearly in the wrong for not communicating things beforehand to Lin and Lin's agent. Lin has acted very professionally throughout his tenure at Rockets regardless of how you perceive his performance on the court, and deserves fair treatment. I can understand his frustration.
What? Are you suggesting they wouldn't have matched a 4 year, 24 million dollar contract? This is blatantly false. They declared that they would match all offers. It was the poison pill year that threw them off because of the harsh luxury tax implications. The total amount of the contract was never the problem.
I would let Morey Photoshop me getting hanged in the locker room for 15 million dollars. I wouldn't care if I got that money.
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There was no other significant offer just the qualifying. This has been discussed 100 times. New York did not care about a poison pill that was just the story the Knicks went with. We gave that money to Bargnani anyway(plus picks)...and spent even more for Jason Kidds corpse and the fantastic JR Smith Felton backcourt. The Knicks org was largely run by CAA and Dolan is the worst owner in sports. We are in the tax every year and it doesn't matter because of MSG money.
Joe joe is correct. Lin specifically said the Knicks never made him an offer. The only gave him the minimal qualifying offer so they kept the right to match. They did not. It may have been for luxury tax reasons but it's like the guy who overpaid for 10 things all of a sudden deciding to get cheap with the one thing that would have been fine - for New York.
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