[OFFICIAL] Jeremy Lin IS a Houston Rocket

We got most of the key assets out of them anyways. Not much left to rob.

 

[rQUOTEr]As for the Rockets, this is a painless transaction. The cap rules for this particular situation dictate that Lin count for about $8 million annually in each season of his three-year deal. That’s a manageable number, especially considering the pristine state of Houston’s cap sheet after the team traded point guard Kyle Lowry and used the amnesty provision on power forward Luis Scola. If the Rockets end up with both Lin and Bulls restricted free agent center Omer Asik, to whom they plan to tender a similar poison-pill offer sheet, they could still trim their cap figure to something like $43.5 million. That would give them nearly $15 million of cap space, enough room to take back about $13 million of toxic Orlando salary in any Dwight Howard trade, provided the Rockets send out shooting guard Kevin Martin’s $12.4 million expiring contract and about $6 million worth of first- and second-year players in addition to a boatload of first-round picks.

For instance: Houston should be able to fit both Magic power forward Glen Davis and shooting guard Jason Richardson in this scenario. That isn’t quite the lethal contract bonanza that Houston could absorb without Lin and Asik on the books, but both the Richardson and Davis deals run longer than Orlando small forward Hedo Turkoglu’s contract, and the Rockets can still offer the same generally powerful package of cap relief and picks. Finding a way to include Magic point guard Chris Duhon’s small contract shouldn’t be too hard, either.

Of course, the Rockets could simply have hung on to Lowry’s cheap contract or re-signed point guard Goran Dragic for about the same per-year salary that Lin will now get. But they flipped Lowry for a lottery pick from Toronto, an asset that Houston believes is more valuable on the trade market than Lowry. And Dragic’s new deal with Phoenix runs for four seasons, a deal-breaker for the Rockets.

It wasn’t simple, but Houston now has a 23-year-old point guard on a contract that the team doesn’t hate, plus a lottery pick in Lowry’s place. Like almost everything this team does, this meta point guard transaction is a small victory and not a big one that really moves the dial in terms of on-court potential. Let’s see if the Rockets can turn all these small victories into something more.[/rQUOTEr]

 

And that where Dolan has a change of heart and lowers the boom on us.

 

Heard Bucher on say Lin may have reinjured his knee this summer.

 

What else do they have that we would even WANT?

 

of course bucher would say this. :grin:

 

T-minus 3 hours till we know. Can't wait for the official announcement

 

T.Jones is like Landry with D and handles.

 

Links?

 

Ya a cousins landry mold is what I said..good call

 

I like Jeremy Lin's game, but GM did dumb job to trade a better PG Kyle Lowry with more reasonable contract.

How many centers we have? Why we need send out another bad contract to Asik? And release Scola for nothing.

I like our 3 drafts this year, why we have to trade them out for temporarily renting D Howard?

If you want the franchises sink, go ahead and do it....

 

Www.allinricbuchersmind.com/Lin-sadly-houstonbound.

That's Ric Bucher's "source".

 

The best asset in the possible trade for Howard is the lottery pick they got for Lowry.

 

It wasn't a straight up Lin for Lowry trade though. It was Lin + Toronto's lottery pick for Lowry. I ok with that, whether we get Dwight or not.

 

Well that's good news. At least we have a PG now.

I'm not sold on Lin though. He needs to prove that he can play at a high level for a season. And cut down those TOs.

 

Lin+TOR pick >>>> Lowry

 

Im sick of Bucher man

i hate him

 

That should be Lowry + Dragic

 

Oh man, I remember lurking these boards when that dunk happened and that pic came along...

Someone even captioned it.

"SAVE A HORSE, RIDE A MAV!!"