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

Kevin Love doesnt impact the game NEARLY as much as Howard.

 

Bite on what? There aren't any suitors for Howard except Lakers/Cavs, and what player on the Cavs aside from Irving si worth anything? They got top 4 picks 2 times in a row and picked horribly at each of them, what kind of package can they have that will require Houston to give up all of its promising young guys for Howard?

 

If we don't make any other trades and still can't get a C then we still got a huge gap. Our line up would look like this with lin i think after cutting players.

Lin-Douglas- Machado/Z.Dragic
Martin-Lamb-Livingston
Parsons-Forbes-White
Jones-Morris-Motiejunas-White
Patterson-Leuer-Smith

Really need a C for this team to function. Hoping for a trade or asik. Don't want martin on the team either, would like more mins for lamb and to sign Z.Dragic

 

Lakers, terrible road team and had no clue how to defend Pick&Roll. Westbrook did that on daily basis in playoffs.

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Jeremy Lin will **** your world up. Fact.

 

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I don't think we will be giving up all our promising players. Some reports say that we are willing to give up only 1 draft pick. That will probably be Lamb. and Kmart is gone and probably 1 more player. Plus picks. This is just based on Aldridge latest report. Id be happy if didnt give up both dont get me wrong. But I don't think he will come without us moving out a little more than is in that report.

Im sure youve all read it but here it is

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/07/13/dwight-update-not-close-to-a-trade-with-rockets/

 

Okay, then compare the lineups...

Dragic
Lee
Parsons
Scola
Dalembert

to

Lin
Lamb or Lee
Parsons
DMo/Glen Davis
Dwight Effing Howard

The first team has nothing that would be a tough matchup...yet, the first team has no answer for Dwight.

Put Howard into the lineup and they will be in the middle of the excitement.

 

People, please stop responding to Siigmund.

 

More than any other comparable, Lin's game reminds me of Steve Nash. How he keeps his dribble alive and makes it look easy when he gets close to the basket in a variety of ways.

What we don't really know is how his jump shooting and court vision will develop. Nash actually didn't start out as an elite player in either category, it took quite awhile for both to develop. Lin shows flashes of both but he has a lot more work to do.

 

Yes, Lin's career is probably better than Nash's at the same age, but he's got a lot to improve on.

 

I doubt Morey invest too much in players that he thinks will fit well around Dwight until Dwight re-signs. We don't want to have a team full of role players with little cap space if Dwight leaves. I think he will keep true to his "flexibility is priority" philosophy until next summer.

 

You conveniently forgot:

4. Know nothing about basketball, so dig holes for yourself.

Not only did Morey cut Lin, the new Lin contract is much worse than the one he refused to offer Dragic.

 

Lin could help make Howard stay in Houston if we traded for him. Dragic won't be able to do that.

 

Lin won't come to Houston, Knicks didn't match offer sheet for Fields which they said they would, so there is room for Lin now. It doesn't hurt having a third proven PG, do not count the spanish guy next to Lin & Kidd. To me, it would still be a shock of NY decides to let Lin go.

 

Hope dies last, but Knicks will try to get CP3 next summer.

 

Knicks fan? Lin's contract is much more cap friendly than the one Dragic signed.

 

Horrible contract. I understand it from a marketing perspective but both Lowry and Dragic were much better players

 

Look Aldridge can say what he thinks is a "fair" package, and Orlando can say what they want in a DH trade. However the bottom line is you just have to put up a better offer than what Cleveland has. They really messed up their draft since Irving, their top 4 pick last year is straight up worse than Patterson and their top 4 pick this year hasn't done any workouts, not to mention played in a weaker conference. At this point all they really have is a few picks, Zeller and expirings. all of which we can easily match.

Rather than setting our own price, let's see what Cleveland ponies up first and then come up with our own offer. Maybe all they can offer in the end for Bynum is an expiring and their top 4 pick last year lol.

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/source_knicks_won_match_lin_offer_IaFOfENCk85407zzt3ynxK

Source: Knicks won’t match Lin offer after trade for Felton

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By MARC BERMAN
Last Updated: 5:33 AM, July 15, 2012
Posted: 2:23 AM, July 15, 2012

LAS VEGAS — Linsanity got his money, but it looks like it won’t be from the Knicks.

In a stunning turn of events in the past 24 hours, the Knicks agreed to a sign-and-trade with the Trail Blazers to obtain former Knicks point guard Raymond Felton that all but ends the Jeremy Lin era prematurely and bitterly, according to league sources.

Linsanity was fun while it lasted.

One NBA source insisted the Knicks, with Felton’s addition, will not match Lin’s new, ramped-up $25 million offer sheet from the Rockets. The Knicks will have three days to reconsider amid a potential backlash.

In the trade, the Knicks got even older, adding another former Knick, Kurt Thomas, 39. Knicks free agent Jared Jeffries was signed in the deal and shipped to Portland in the package, along with Dan Gadzuric’s non-guaranteed $1.4 million contract.

The Post reported on its back page Saturday the Knicks were furious the Rockets changed the offer sheet for Lin and upgraded it to a $25 million guarantee over three years, according to a source. The Knicks were bitter because they told Lin immediately the club would match the original offer and Lin apparently shared the information with the Rockets. Lin and Houston then plotted to redo it.

Lin secretly flew into Las Vegas without informing the Knicks to renegotiate the contract and sign it.

The Knicks had been set to match Lin’s original offer sheet of four years, $28.9 million that had a $19 million guarantee before the Rockets threw a financial curveball that called for a $15 million third year that would have doomed owner James Dolan’s luxury-tax predicament.

So this likely ended the Knicks’ endless blabber across the past two months, swearing they would bring Lin back and that he was a “big part” of “what we’re trying to do,’’ as coach Mike Woodson put it three days ago.

The Knicks also would lose out on continuing to promote a global marketing sensation.

Lin also may be a young point guard with an All-Star future, but apparently Knicks officials didn’t think so. There was concern Lin’s success was a function of former coach Mike D’Antoni’s up-tempo offense and would not be as effective in Woodson’s isolation sets. Plus, Woodson does not like playing young players and Lin was coming off knee surgery that cut short his historic 26-game surge.

The Knicks had brought in Jason Kidd to be Lin’s mentor and Spanish League veteran Pablo Prigioni as another backup at the point. The 24-year-old undrafted Harvard point guard apparently had not earned the Knicks’ full confidence he was ready for a full-time starting role next season.