[ClutchFans] The Jeremy Lin-Carmelo Anthony jersey controversy is ridiculously overblown

seems pretty clear that people who dislike Lin think this isn't a big deal and those that do think it is. It really depends on where you stand with him. Obviously Clutch is the former.

 

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=6463183&postcount=55

This post is ahead of it's time

 

you are about as bright as she is.

 

LOL, that post summarized two of the major threads in the GARM!

 

EXACTLY!!!

 

Exactly. It was a non-issue until Lin went to his 1.28 million followers on twitter about it. A medium that is not private to anyone.

He went against the family.

 

I live in the east coast and no-one cares about this...why do you? What irks you so much about this? Listening to talk radio, almost to a man, they think that the Rockets dissed Lin, Lin responded, end of story, no big deal. On to a real story.
You'll have your wish, he won't be a Rocket in a few days and your life will be back to whatever it was before Lin.

 

The media ran the stories because of Lin's tweets. Using religion to start wars. Is Lin a terrorist now?

 

The media ran the stories because of the Rockets buffoonery..
Face it, the whole thing is overblown and short of a bunch of Rocket fans who won't let it go, the story is dead.

 

Lebrons pitch had him wearing t-jones' number. Same with Dwight's last year. It's really not a big deal.

 

It only became a big deal because Lin being the petulant, thin skinned, mentally weak drama queen that he is took the whole episode to social media to make a big fiasco out of nothing and to gain support from his delusional brain washed groupies.

All Lin had to do was keep quiet and there would have been no issue. Afterall, this kind of thing happens all the time but when it happens to Lin it becomes major news because of Lin's piss poor personality crying foul and using the bible to paint this "Lin vs the NBA" attitude.

 

The real issue is that it happened and BOTH sides screwed up...then the relentless attacks by Rocket's fans kept it alive on the GARM much longer than it deserved to be.
Let it go.......

 

I'm kinda shocked that at this point Houston isn't even in the running for Carmelo. According to the 'news', its between NY and the Lakers right now.

Seriously? The Lakers? Over the Rockets? Insanity. What kind of horrible pitch did Houston give? What am I missing about all of this? What are all these free agents thinking thats making them pass on the rockets?

 

Lin cried for a minute while you've been crying for days now.....

 

I was just thinking about this, If Dmo knew there was a poster of Carmelo in the lockeroom Lin must have known as well right? Why did he wait to tweet out he felt disrespected when Carmelo was in town?

 

Not really adding anything to the discussion, but I just thought this was hilarious

 

The Rockets are Houston's team and I live here so I support them.

However, they did a goof and they are paying a little PR price.

I agree Rockets needed to go for the home run here but it's just business is not good enough.

Morley said "complicated". Didn't have to be but they just assumed Jeremy was nice Christian so he wouldn't do anything about it. Wrong.

 

Is it a safe conclusion to make that you are more butt hurt about Lin's tweet than Lin was about the jersey?

I would say yes.

 

He isn't passive aggressively posting biblical verses... So not really?

 

"they just assumed Jeremy {...} wouldn't do anything about it"?

Lin couldn't do anything about it. He's an outgoing bench guy. Whining on Twitter was the only way he could show his displeasure, and he even did that in a passive-aggressive way.

If the Rockets could somehow magically keep Lin and still get Carmelo (impossible, I know, just an example), they'd be within their rights to hand #7 to Melo and make Lin choose another. Bench players don't get to dictate such things.