Every player's salary is very important to every roster move the team makes. It's silly to compare it to most jobs. If Jeremy Lin's salary didn't have a significant impact on what other players are on the team, fans would care a lot less. If Jeremy Lin made a million more, we would have had to cut more players to sign Howard. If he made a million less, we might have kept a couple of guys.
Better yet, let just pay him the minimum salary of 7.5/hour, have him flip the burger for rest of the team. He just love to stay in Rox coz he is so excited to be in Houston.
Well said, Old Man Rock. And if Harden had not become available last year, I believe Lin would have had much better stats probably close to his Linsanity numbers, but then the Rockets would most likely not have made the playoff.
5 mill for an at worst, average starting nba PG?? That is underpaid. Now the year he gets 15 mill he will certainly be overpaid.
OP your logic is a complete failure. the 3 PG you listed with similar salaries and stats as compared to Lin : Calderon : the Mavs signing this year was viewed by most people as one of the worst signing in this offseason. Teague : his market isn't really that good as the Hawks basically kept him in the last second when all other major FAs are gone. Dragic : are you kidding me? The Suns not only drafted a PG in the draft, but they also traded one from the clippers which surely looks an upgrade than Dragic. and the most important part why your logic failed : Look at those 3 teams, none of them were believed to be a playoff team next year and believed to be the bottom feeders for years to come, and your Rockets? The expectation is CHAMPIONSHIP. And you use your own PG to compare with the bottom feeder's standard?
Will DWH be overpaid? His performance last season put him in the same groups of M.Gasol/Noah/Hibbert, whose salaries are way below 22mil per. We are all assuming he's recovering from injury and fared better in second half, then how about Lin did same thing? DWH is more proven but players at Lin's age usually improve faster... I'd say Lin's as overpaid as DWH will be. Most likely both will outperform at the end of their contract if not earlier.
Lin might be overpaid for what he did last year, but does anyone not believe that Lin would have put up better stats if the Rockets did not get Harden? So if you can accept that premise then Lin is only overpaid because the Rockets under utilized him. It's like paying for an expensive computer but only use it to play solitaire. So did you overpaid for the PC or just didn't make the most use out of it? You might get your money worth if you used the PC properly.
So Morey bought a PC (Lin) mainly because he wants to watch pron on the web, that's before he got Harden. Sure, that should serve the purpose. But shortly after, he got Harden, he want to play more games on this PC, and then he found out the video card isn't really that great on his PC and that limits him to play his game on a max setting. Now, this year he bought more games and actually wants to be a hardcore game player, he either needs to do some major upgrades on his PC, or eventually just buy a new one, otherwise he will be failing badly. Watching pron is not the priority right now for Morey, playing game or to be more specific, being a hardcore gamer is.
That Lin PC has some defective components initially and recently due to accidents. It's under warranty and were repaired and possibly upgraded at no additional cost...
Lin is making 8/8/8 mil per year here not 5/5/15 if Knicks matched the offer. Pretty sure Knicks would have matched if it was 8/8/8.
Of course the Knicks would have matched the 8/8/8 salary structure. The Rockets put the 15m in the 3rd year because they knew it would cost the Knicks about $40m in luxury taxes that year. So Lin's market value is exactly 8.3 million which is what we should be gauging him on.
