And what are they going to offer for CP3? Their biggest trading piece was going to be Lin. If Lin does not prove that he is a star the Clippers will be unwillingly to take him at basically $10MM a year and if he is a star the Knicks likely won't want to trade him.
Grunwald tied the Knicks with bad contracts and got backfired by the Camby trade and the new CBA. I can't imagine what kinda face will Dolan put on when he sees Grunwald.
Or they knew they couldn't keep Lin from the start. It makes sense now why they had continued interest in Prigioni for so long.
When Lin is here on the ground then all is good... Wonder if he could finish out summer league for us at the point and show the young-uns how it's done..lol zzpot
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Whatever it was for the trading team. RT @<a href="https://twitter.com/Fcknsshole">Fcknsshole</a>: what happens if Lin is traded after 2 years? What's his cap hit in that third year?</p>— Larry Coon (@LarryCoon) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryCoon/status/224328598222413824" data-datetime="2012-07-15T02:24:40+00:00">July 15, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> This tells me that if Lin is traded the cap hit is the same as the Rockets would have had e.g. 8 million. This is good news as it makes him all the more trade-able for CP3
very disingenuous to post that when kidd has only shown to be durable throughout his career and has held onto his starter role.
So it adds value to a trade under the new CBA rules?. Plus there is a rule that says trades have to match up more (On the money end) I think?? I'm not good at this stuff at all.. still learning. zzpot.
Has the Lin offer sheet been delivered? Watching nba tv this morning and they claim that the Rockets have been trying to deliver the offer sheet to the knicks but that they cannot be found in vegas.
Ok, somebody help me out here: If this is true, and this is the Post so that's a big "if", then Lin really wants to leave the Knicks and come to the Rockets. My question is: why? It's not about money- obviously Dolan would have paid Lin as much or more per year, it's just that being forced to match this particular contract puts them in the 2.5x luxury in a bad way in year 3. If the overall money is equal, why would Lin go out of his way to help Morey pry him away? New York is the biggest stage in basketball, he is fanatically beloved by the entire city, he was the biggest story in all of sports because of the chance he got with the Knicks. Why leave for the Rockets, if hypothetically the pay would have been the same? Is it competing with Kidd for the starting spot?
Furthermore, if Lin was pissed that the Knicks waited for him to get an offer they would have to match, i.e.: letting him test the market instead of making an offer right away, then he should know that is exactly Morey's MO with all of our free agents so far. Come to think of it, though, now that Morey has invented the Poison Pill, he probably doesn't get to do his "let the market set your price" thing with our future free agents, because another GM might do the same thing to him.
