Jeremy Lin agrees to terms on offer sheet [Update: Lin officially signs]

It was100k.

 

HAHAHAH... This is so hilarious! In New York its a near 70%/30% that they hope the Knicks do NOT match. LOL...

It would be so awesome if NYK organization based their decision on an unbiased source: ESPN SportsNation Poll: If Knicks should match Rockets' offer for Lin :grin:

NYK Organization: "WHOA... the whole country does NOT want us to match!"

next thing you know, your read the following: (of course I want to read this so so bad... in ~20 hours from now)

ESPN Just In: The Linsanity in New York is over... Lin to become a part of the Houston Rockets.

PLEASE!!! DO NOT MATCH! I don't want to destroy my team and redo it without Lin on it on NBA2K12.

 

fvvvk quadass! why do you have so many ass?

 

Here, just found this in an old open tab:

 

Fixed:

 

It WAS 100k. They may have lowered it to 10k then increased it to 15k. I don't know. I just know that last night, it was 100k.

 

Anyway, who cares. Internet petitions are about as effective as Helen Keller: Fighter Pilot.

 

That screenshot was from over a day ago. When the story originally broke on the petition I remember it clearly being 10k. Obviously the guys has been fooling with the goal numbers because it's at 15k right now. I believe you guys (since so many of you are corroborating the same figure) that he changed it to 100k although I didn't see that myself. Guess it didn't take off like he expected.

 

Not saying it wasnt to 100k but every time I checked (which was yesterday through out the day) it was to 10k

 

Better explanation is that the guy accidentally changed it to 100k before realizing his mistake. Jumping from 10k to 15k seems to make much more sense, especially with the pace of signature collection. I'm not even sure what the point of the petition is honestly, because 10k signatures seems pretty laughable considering the population of that city and the size of their fan base. Hell, TexAgs could find 10k signatures in a day if they tried.

 

https://twitter.com/chrisrock

Couple of interesting twitter mentions

"Please knicks keep linn lets not have a brand new team for the tenth year in a row. Things have to sit in order to jell."

"Jeremy linn I've never seen grown men hate on another mans money like this in my life ." Chris Rock


and

https://twitter.com/AschNBA

"Blaming Jeremy Lin for lux.tax issues in NY = 6 fat guys in elevator ripping skinny 7th guy who boards last, trips buzzer."

 

If the Knicks match, then Morey needs to go after Brazil's Marcelinho Huertas. This guy has improved by leaps and bounds since not being drafted in 2005.

He may be 29 but this guy has amazing change of speed and vision. He was definitely the best player on team full of NBA players (Nene, Varejao, Barbosa, Splitter, etc.).

 

If they match.. they'll have 4 point guards. Also dat poison pill contract.. It just doesn't make any sense for me for them to match. Yeah he's a fan favorite and brings a lot of marketability but I hope they don't match. I am not looking foward to Fortson and Machado being our pgs... at least starters that is.

 

Brooks is on his way to Kings. So what other PG can te rockets get?

 

Jose Calderon maybe?

 

The Knicks’ season may not have ended with the playoffs loss to Miami because, by all appearances, they’re still playing games.

In a snit over the Rockets reworking the offer sheet to Jeremy Lin, the Knicks are in no hurry to respond to the deadline to match or decline the latest version of the proposal. And before that comes to a head, possibly tonight, the Knicks officially added point guard Raymond Felton, which would appear to be a major domino leading to the exit of the incumbent Lin.

The apparent conflict as to exactly how long the Knicks have to match Houston’s 3-year, $25.1 million back-loaded offer sheet revolves around when the offer actually was delivered. According to the collective bargaining agreement, teams have 72 hours from the time they receive an offer sheet to make their decision. The deadline is traditionally worked out between the teams without league intervention.

The Rockets maintain the sheet was delivered to the Knicks Saturday night after attempts were made to get it to them on Friday. The Knicks, however, have not confirmed the delivery date. Technically, the sheet is expected to be delivered to the team’s offices, but the Knicks brass was headquartered in a Las Vegas hotel as its team competes in the summer league there. The Rockets also maintain the offer was shipped to the Knicks’ New York offices.

The Knicks are upset with the change in the offer sheet’s original details, going from a four-year deal to a hard-to-swallow three-year version that has a killer $14.9 million final year. The Knicks would then owe roughly three times that ($43.4 million) in luxury tax. So they are in no mood to cooperate.

Still, around the league, some executives were not fully persuaded “Linsanity” was closing its New York run.

“I’m not convinced,” one rival general manager said. “The guy is a good player. The guy puts people in the arena. ... That third year puts them in a tough spot. But I don’t think it’s about money for them.”

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So Felton’s arrival could signal Lin’s departure. Still, several executives around the league — who requested anonymity because they were not speaking about their own players or teams — thought the Knicks would retain Lin.

“They’ll have a huge payroll. They let [Landry] Fields go. Again, it’s that third year but at the end of the day, you’re worth what someone is willing to pay you and I just think they’ll end up keeping him,” the first exec said.

Another, from the West, chose to look at it from a marketing standpoint and said simply, “I would think they’d have to match because of his worth in other [non-basketball] areas. Maybe by the time that [tax hit] takes effect, you work something out in another area.”

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So this thing could get extended if the Knicks deny that they received an offer sheet. Great.

 

I want to end already. Just give it up Knicks.

 

18 more hours....

 

somehow u gotta feel the league office would've laid down the law on this had NY been the team extending an offer sheet and the rockets in limbo to match...