Jeremy Lin will visit the Houston Rockets tomorrow

It must have been a wishful feeling then

 

The practices the team had before the season started. He seemed to be pretty well-liked and respected. As far as his actual abilities go, the only disappointment I had with him is his insistence to have Scola and Patterson in the game at the same time during the 4th quarter. That wouldve been fine if Paterson was giving us something last year but he just outright sucked ass.

 

It's called player development!

 

He had a subpar product this past season and he is quickly losing important pieces from the championship team. Chandler and Berrea last off season and so far Terry and Kidd this off season.

Cuban is not going to have a great product on the floor this year.

 

by that time, no one including melo knew he can ball. when melo was back, d'antonio continue letting lin dominate the ball. that pissed melo. d'antonio got fired. well, woodson kept saying he rode on melo dik so eventually woodson got head coach job.

 

longest meeting ever

cant believe theres no contract details yet

 

It takes time to brew up the ingredients of the poison pill.

 

Cuban underestimated the importance of Tyson Chandler last season. Smart businessman like Cuban doesn't make too many mistakes.

Losing DWill to New Jersey was probably expected but I am almost certain that he will pay dearly to acquire competent PGs.

 

http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocke...heir-sights-on-lin-make-him-a-contract-offer/

The Rockets brought Jeremy Lin back to town for a visit on Wednesday. Getting him to stay in Houston will be considerably more difficult and might have gotten tougher even as they met.

The Rockets on Wednesday made Lin an offer similar in total value to the contract Goran Dragic turned down. But with Lin a restricted free agent, giving the Knicks the opportunity to match any offer he receives, the Knicks received extra motivation to hang on to Lin while he met with Rockets general manager Daryl Morey and coach Kevin McHale.

Steve Nash, the veteran guard the Knicks had targeted, agreed to a sign-and-trade agreement that will send him to the Lakers in exchange for a pair of first-round and pair of second-round picks. Nash, who was also considering the Raptors, Mavericks and Knicks, will receive a three-year, $27 million contract and a chance to play for a contender a short flight from his family in Phoenix.

The Knicks received more reasons to keep Lin. The Rockets will try to make that difficult.

The Rockets set their sights on Lin, a point guard they waived after 12 days in training camp, when they failed to reach an agreement with Dragic. A person with knowledge of the negotiations with Dragic said that he would not be back with the Rockets and that Dragic has offers that greatly exceed the Rockets offer. Dragic visited with the Suns on Tuesday. He is also getting interest from the Raptors and Bobcats.

Besides failing to come to an agreement with Dragic, the Rockets withdrew their qualifying offer to Courtney Lee. The Bulls can match the Rockets with Bulls center Omer Asik.

If Lin agrees, the Rockets would structure Lin’s contract similarly to Asik’s, paying $5 million the first season and $5.2 million in the second season before jumping dramatically in the 2013-14 season.

The new, more punitive luxury tax begins that season. For Rockets, the contract would count against the salary cap and luxury tax figures each year for only the average salary during the contract.

If the Knicks match, however, it would count the actual value paid each season toward the salary cap and luxury tax. Though New York has seemed determined to match any offer sheet Lin signs, the way the contract is structured would push the Knicks that season to the luxury tax threshold with just four players, Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler and Lin.

The Knicks had seemed prepared for that possibility, choosing to pursue veteran point guards that could help mentor the 23-year-old Lin. With Nash unavailable, the Knicks could pursue Jason Kidd for that role.

The Rockets still have Kyle Lowry after draft night trades fell through, but still could be left searching, with the backcourt that finished the season – Dragic and Courtney Lee – likely gone and Lin, the point guard that got away, an increasingly difficult challenge to get back.

 

Crazy thought. What if the rockets got both dragic and Lin. Then they flip Lowry. Love the idea of Lin as a 6th man behind dragic

 

That is crazy. Do we have the cap space for both Dragic and Lin? I think not.

 

The Rockets don't need cap space for Dragic, bird rights.

 

Crazier thought: what if they get neither?

 

there you go... dragic was lowballed.. hes not coming back.. its a dead issue.

 

Then the Rockets are a step closer to a full blown rebuild.

 

Kyle and Kevin better learn how to get along,

 

And that might be the best news this off-season.

 

*Sigh, if they were going to blow it up, wish they would have done it last season with the shorter schedule and all... hate rooting for my team to lose and would avoid that if at all possible.

 

Craziest thought - we get neither, Phoenix signs Dargic and renounces Brooks, and we get Brooks back either as a backup to Lowry or as the starter after we shiP out Lowry?