Rockets Signs Lin

[Mr. E]

Oh shat, morey you fuked up. Lin isnt a real pg and isnt worth 15 mill on his 3rd year. I rather have dragic back.

I don't think that we'd be paying him 15M in that year. That's what the Knicks would have to pay to match the deal. I think he'd get 8/8/9 from us

[Br0ken_Sp0ke]

Would way rather have kept Dragic than have Lin at that price...

Oh well, at least we have a decent PG option next season. Would have been some painful basketball watching Machado/Fortson run the show.

[zapatasblood]

Would way rather have kept Dragic than have Lin at that price...

Oh well, at least we have a decent PG option next season. Would have been some painful basketball watching Machado/Fortson run the show.

Don't forget Livingston

[90sAllDecade]

Good posts guys, I saw similar:

Marc J. Spears

@SpearsNBAYahoo
Jeremy Lin appears close to being a Houston Rocket with Raymond Felton to NY deal close to being done, sources tell Y!

https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo?tw_i ... tweetembed

Dragic was probably a safer pick, but Lin is most likely a higher risk/reward as far as becoming a true breakout star (if healthy and lives up to his play when he was allowed to dominate the ball game when Melo was hurt). Or he might be smoke and mirrors and get injured, either way I'm okay with this gamble. Since we need to either suck for the draft or develop true stars.

I wouldn't complain about a Lin/Howard combo to win games and help entice J Smith to come on down and join the team.

[clockwork]

Marc J. Spears ‏@SpearsNBAYahoo
Rockets found loophole that would cost them $8 million on third year of Lin offer sheet and Knicks $15 million, source tells Y! Sports.

from the knicks forum....

interesting.

found an explanation...

Not a loophole. I knew about it. That's the whole part of the poison pill...hurts us more than them. They pay Lin an avg of 8 per year -- that's the cap hit. However, we'd actually have to pay the "real" amount per year -- 5.2, 5.2, 14+.

Someone posted this a few weeks ago.

[adrenaLINe]

what is this... Clutchfans seem to love this deal...

where as here... most of you 12 posters hate the deal..

bottom line this team is lottery bound... if Lin turns out to be a bust... the next 3 years...

then your Tanking will be on track...

and it wont matter anyways because Rox will suck for the next 5 years anyways...

if Lin turns out to be "true" All star material... then his play alone will make your games bearable to watch...

as for Dwight... slow footed Yao use to make Dwight his Biatch when they matched up...

thats because Dwight is useless when he cant move his man...

[Guy986]

Lin is not as good as dragic or lowry. We just paid more money to downgrade the pg spot. But we will make shat ton of money off of him tho.

[clockwork]

Lin is not as good as dragic or lowry. We just paid more money to downgrade the pg spot. But we will make shat ton of money off of him tho.

lin is 23, both lowry and dragic are 26 so it's not that farfetched to say that he could improve to their levels, assuming what he did in new york wasn't a fluke.

[rocketsballin]

im too lazy to read this **** but we wont be paying lin 15mil on his last year right? then he wont be that overpaid if at all by then. there's always room for imrovement when you're young.

[clockwork]

im too lazy to read this **** but we wont be paying lin 15mil on his last year right? then he wont be that overpaid if at all by then. there's always room for imrovement when you're young.

it'd be evenly distributed, 8 million per year.

[rocketsballin]

thats not that bad at all. 8mil per for a starting pg that could improve? cmon yall, put the crack pipe down, sober up and get back to the real world world 7footers get underserved max deals. this aint a bad contract.

[zapatasblood]

what is this... Clutchfans seem to love this deal...

where as here... most of you 12 posters hate the deal..

bottom line this team is lottery bound... if Lin turns out to be a bust... the next 3 years...

then your Tanking will be on track...

and it wont matter anyways because Rox will suck for the next 5 years anyways...

if Lin turns out to be "true" All star material... then his play alone will make your games bearable to watch...

as for Dwight... slow footed Yao use to make Dwight his Biatch when they matched up...

thats because Dwight is useless when he cant move his man...

Morey has done a good job in avoiding bad deals and now we might have 2 if the Bull do not match in one offseason.

[zapatasblood]

thats not that bad at all. 8mil per for a starting pg that could improve? cmon yall, put the crack pipe down, sober up and get back to the real world world 7footers get underserved max deals. this aint a bad contract.

You overreach/overpay for potential in the draft not free agency.

[zapatasblood]

By the way Dragic and Nash got less

[clockwork]

By the way Dragic and Nash got less

the point of morey's offer was to pry him away from the knicks. we could have easily offered dragic money but they'd be less pressured on resigning him.

and nash got 27 through 3 years, 9 million.

[zapatasblood]

I would rather have Dragic over a vasty overpaid Lin.

I guess I read wrong on Nash.

[clockwork]

I would rather have Dragic over a vasty overpaid Lin.

I guess I read wrong on Nash.

definitely don't disagree with you there.

[Guy986]

what is this... Clutchfans seem to love this deal...

where as here... most of you 12 posters hate the deal..

bottom line this team is lottery bound... if Lin turns out to be a bust... the next 3 years...

then your Tanking will be on track...

and it wont matter anyways because Rox will suck for the next 5 years anyways...

if Lin turns out to be "true" All star material... then his play alone will make your games bearable to watch...

as for Dwight... slow footed Yao use to make Dwight his Biatch when they matched up...

thats because Dwight is useless when he cant move his man...

67% of clutchfans member dont want lin.
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.ph ... 54&page=64

[jamrock1975]

knicks fan here not trolling. Two things I wanted to clear up with you guys. The first thing is that Houston will have to pay Jeremy LIn $14.9M in year three because that is the offer sheet he signed and they can pull it, but it would prevent future free agents from trying to sign with them, it would be almost bush league if they did. The second thing is that Houston hasn't provided the Knicks with the offer sheet that Jeremy allegedly signed so they can decide if they want to match or not. The process is normally a team signs a restricted free agent and the team that has that restricted free agent has up to three days to match. What is very fishy in this scenario is that even though Lin allegedly sign the offer sheet Houston has presented the offer sheet. So my question is did Jeremy Lin actually sign an offer sheet? Houston appears to be playing games because if Jeremy signed the offer sheet on Friday why has Houston not sent the offer sheet to New York. There appears to be some type of trickery going on here.

[asian]

i'm both a huge fan of dragic & lin. i think lin has higher upside than both dragic and lowry. great get for the rockets if NYK doesn't match.