Ha Ha! hey Knicks you dissed Lin, now the show is on the other foot, no? Stick it to em Morey.........gotta luv it!
If the extra $5 M makes Lin 10% less tradeable for the Knicks, eliminating another prime suitor for CP3, it is definitely worth trying. And if they don't match, I doubt we would be too worried about slightly overpaying for a position of need to a young player with potential(on and off the court) to exceed his contract. Please, you know better than that.
Knicks would match a BILLION! So why are they b****ing about $14M, should be peanuts for them! :grin:
It's Morey's job to watch out for the best interests of The Houston Rockets. Nothing else. Good job dude! The Game is ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did the Knicks think this was fantasy football? I'll trade you Ryan Grant if you let Mercedes Lewis fall to me on the waiver wire? No, this is a busines and the Rockets suck right now and can use any help they can get. They beat us with the Carmelo fiasco, so I'm good with the sneaky tactics
Wow... You think that GM's make deals to help other teams? That is interesting. Maybe if we're really nice and submissive, they'll give us what we want. NY deserves Lin and should therefore get him for less than what anyone else would pay. It's not like we can stand up to that gigantic wallet anyway.
exactly. With all of their posturing about "we'll sign any deal" in an attempt to scare off Houston from bothering to tempt Lin, Morey got the hint that the deal, as it stood, would be easily matched by NY. So he reengineered it to make it slightly more difficult. If NYK was a SMART franchise (and that is questionable) they would have shut their mouths, said "ok, we'll think about it" and then easily matched later, they would've been much better off. Conversely, if they "knew" Lin would pay for himself through endorsements etc. then they should've offered him a strong deal with salaray cap terms favorable to them so they wouldn't be in this predicament!!! Sometimes all the chest beating just creates self-inflicted wounds.
If NY's owner and management were not in NY, they would be the worst team in the league. Everything they have is because of things landing in their lap.
Who cares if NY is mad. BTW, no one fleeced ny in the McGrady trade. We don't even gave the player we traded for.
Hahaha, Knicks tried to screw over Lin by playing hardball and now they don't like it when Lin does it right back? Had they been smart they would have gone out and bid strongly for him. They let the market set the price and now they don't like having to pay that price. The idiots could have set the price themselves and made Lin feel like a king along the way. At least, even though we lost Dragic, he knows we went strongly for him and there doesn't seem to be bad blood between team, Dragic and fans.
What's most interesting to me about the Knicks forum comments are how they repeatedly refer to Morey as an idiot. Really? He's an idiot because he keeps making your management look like idiots? The McGrady deal. The Camby deal. Now this? Morey has owned the ever living ***** out of the Knicks. There are a lot of names Knicks fans can justifiably call Morey, but idiot isn't one of them.
I don't see how people can be hating this maneuver by Morey. As many have said, this will either get us a young all-star in the making at the point, or screw the Knicks long-term and preventing a new super-team from forming. I think it's a smart move, taking the Knicks on their bluff. As Detective Alonzo Harris would say..."The ****'s chess, it ain't checkers!"
Anybody know how the luxury tax is distributed? Do teams under the tax line share the proceeds equally? Maybe Morey and Les are really playing money ball. After Stern screwed them last year maybe they are putting their considerable financial experience to work at maximizing their profit at the expense of Stern's favored children.
