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

I'm 50-50. I've been expecting a match the whole time, because it's the Knicks and I'd be stunned to see them let Jeremy Walk over money. But the sign-and-trade effect gives legit basketball reasons to let him go. Gives me some hope.

 

Things to note: Newsday is owned by Dolan and that particular paper is not reporting that Lin is gone. They are reporting that no decision has been made but have also run the articles about Dolan and Melo both wanting Lin back. The other NY papers are the ones bashing Lin and saying the Knicks won't match.

 

I think Lin will impact their ability to make moves for up to three summers. Basically, Lin and Melo eat up about 58 million in cap holds. Basically if Lin turns out good, the Knicks will have to renounce almost all of their other Bird rights and re-sign Melo and Lin before they can do anything. They will have very little young talent as they have traded away their 2nd round picks and a first round pick.

 

Multiple reasons at a time -

1. Damage control if they decide they can't afford him

2. To show him a taste of the consequences for going against them and showing him how quickly he can lose the darling status if the ny media no longer likes him.

3. Create maximum story before matching.

4. Mess around with the rockets (as much as they can although not nearly what we did to them).

5. Gauge public reaction to see whether peoPle will quickly abandon him (making a no match decision easier) or cry to save him.

I am of the camp they will match for most of the reasons in the article - they can sign him and trade him later if need be. Some team will trade for him. If they lose him they will lose an asset for nothing. Also, getting Lin would greatly help in keeping Dwight (china market regardless of size is better than dallas Houston or Atlanta) and they will if nothing else block this to decrease our chances with dwight. We're probably not getting Lin unfortunately.

 

Yeah, I am exactly where you are. I had zero hope Knicks wouldn't match until I started seeing how much tax it really would be and all the implications for being over the apron.

 

You guys have to realize that the NY media is totally different from Houston. If the Chron runs a story with Friedman about the Rockets you can be pretty safe in assuming that he is putting out the official position of the Rockets. If he says Coach McHale wants Dwight, then McHale wants Dwight.

It doesn't work that way in NY. NY media makes up a lot of stuff and gets a lot of stuff from sources that are very unreliable. If NY papers report that the Knicks don't want Lin back it doesn't mean it is true. For all the talk about the bad blood when Lin had to go out and negotiate his contract, it was reported that in fact he had gone out to dinner with a member of the Knicks front office to celebrate the contract that same night.

 

I am cool with this either way, and I think we honestly can't lose.

1. We get Lin, who probably is not worth $8+M/yr, but will be good for PR, external revenue, and putting Rox on map with other free agents, in terms of just seeing us more often, media exposure, etc.

2. We don't get Lin, have more $ available, and let Machado run with our super-young team. If we can keep their chins up, there is a good future for this group, I think, if McHale doesn't F it up.

 

Starting to wonder if the Knicks won't actually match.

There are so many conflicting reports and with the chaos surrounding the actual arrival of the offer sheet.

Its getting frustrating and I can only imagine how Morey and the Rockets feel. By late tonight there better be an answer or else I could see some kind of lawsuit from the Rockets.

 

Turkoglu did that with Portland. I don't think it was that big of a deal. He simply decided to take the offer with more money. It's their right as free agents. Its not like pulling a Boozer.

 

Machado? uhhhhh prob not.... not to discredit the guy but he hasn't shown alot in summer league so no.

In fact, he won't get any major minutes if he makes the team... Rockets would prob sign a vet.

 

Would you go as far as to say. . . . It is a Lin-Lin scenario?!?

 

Lol royce white for pg. He can guard the sf on offense while language gets pgs and Parsons gets sgs.

 

So we can win 27 games instead of 21 games? Maybe, maybe no. Machado was solid last night, but I agree he would ideally not see many minutes his rookie year if we want to get the 14th pick again.

 

Linsanity in NY is over even without an official statement, this is a sign of a franchise being butt hurt to the highest degree...

 

all will be forgiven when they match

its nyk, theyll immediately re-praise the guy after hes resigned

 

I keep telling myself it makes no sense to have Kidd/Felton/Smith/Shumpert and Lin filling the 1 and 2 spots, but I just don't see how they do not match.

 

FWIW-

Alan Hahn
And now for the big story of the day: Jeremy Lin. The Knicks will announce a decision this evening regarding the decision on the offer sheet Lin signed with the Rockets. Though reports have indicated the team will pass, internally there has been no final decision made. There are too many factors outside of basketball that come into play in regards to Lin and all of these need to be considered.

 

I will ****ing rage if the knicks claim tonight is not the deadline

 

So there's been the decision (lbj), the indecision (d12), and now the lindecision!

 

No matter how crazy Dolan is supposed to be I think he knows that a winning NYK team, maybe even a championship team, will make tons more money in the long run then Lin can bring him in the short term. By signing Lin that handicaps them with roster moves like you said and I think that will be the determining factor on whether or not NYK match. Grizzly and Woodson should be leaning towards letting Lin walk out that door.