Mark Deeks: Houston trying to dump Jeremy Lin, prioritize salary over basketball assets

sounds good to me, as well.

 

Is this rumor even real? Just now on espn I heard that Chris Paul will re-sign with the Clippers and won't bother meeting with teams. So Dumping Lin will not make sense., unless if there's a trade for Rondo. I rather trade for Aldridge because we need a 4 so bad.

 

Lin's not going anywhere. The Rockets have upcoming pre-season games scheduled in Taiwan. They're obviously leveraging Lin's popularity overseas for marketing purposes. Do you really think they'll show up there with no Lin on the team? That would be like a slap in the face to Taiwanese fans.

 

I don't think a single preseason game in Taiwan is going to have any kind of effect. Yeah, Lin's a marketing stud, but winning championships also helps your marketing draw in the Orient, just ask Kobe.

 

Yeah...cause they really care a lot about the taiwanese fans instead of team building.

 

If our team gets better, we will just have to that L.

 

Lin made Tyson Chandler look like a competent offensive player at one point. It would be interesting to see if he could help with Dwights game.

I can just see Parson, Harden, and Lin just laying the ball up or lobbing to MR HOWARD for the dunk.

Our offense should be nice. If Harden can play some defense next year, than I think we can compete with Miami/OKC.

 

Because Dwight Howard and James Harden don't sell tickets right?

 

Rockets play 41 regular season games in Houston each season. It would be a slap in the face of Houston fans if they didn't do what is best for team because of preseason games in Taiwan would be embarrassing.

 

I think they would take the PR hit of not having Lin if it meant having Dwight AND player(s) they feel can help elevate their chances of winning it all.

The fans might be disappointed, but I still think they would be plenty excited to see guys like Harden, Howard, Parsons etc...

 

I think there is a real possibility that Lin gets traded, but Lin's absence in the meeting has little to do with that.. It's hard to say "you have this huge marketing potential in Asia because we have Lin" when Lin's sitting there.

 

My idea for a potential trade between Boston and Houston

Lin for Lee

With Rondo starting the season on IR, Boston takes Lin. More salary than Lee but Lin is on a shorter deal and would be an expiring contract the following season(tradeable asset).
Lin could have some positive PR in Boston having played at Harvard.

Rockets get Lee and additional cap space to offer Dwight max. Even though we traded him last season, we're able to reacquire him after July 1.
Gives us wing depth and a player that is familiar with our team, coaching staff, city. (doesn't hurt that he trains with Parsons and is good friends with Dwight)

 

It makes good sense, a wing 3 and D guy who is buddies with Howard. I'm not sure Morey would do it, lee's longer deal would jeopardize the cap space needed for a big 3 when Lin and Asik come off the books together. Actually it makes you wonder if Morey has that plan or not.

If you could do this and drop Jones or Dmo instead of TRob then I'm all for it.

 

Is there absolutely no way Dwight will take a slight pay cut so we can keep our players?

 

I definitely think the granger or iggy play with parsons to pf is a legit plan they might try.

 

Anything is possible, but it's better to put yourself in the position to have the funds. He might take it as a sign of disrespect.

 

If they are a few million over is that going to be a big deal to Les?

 

Interesting thought -- though to make the numbers work, the Rockets would have to add a million or so in salary (and that'd be after fitting in Dwight Howard). Assuming Robinson goes, it could be done with one of the other PFs (Jones or D-Mo), though I'd hate to lose those guys too. You'd then have a whole at the PG slot as well as depth at the forwards.

Chicago was also one of the teams allegedly interested in T-Rob.