Confirmed: Jeremy Lin is a Houston Rocket

[jeffx]

The biggest factor was Dolan. If not for the 'poison pill' contract, Dolan doesn't get pissed off and Lin stays a Knick.

[Senser81]

Knicks are awesome. Lose for about 10 years...start to win with Jeremy Lin...get rid of Lin immediately...sign Jason Kidd. Sounds like the Chicago Cubs.

[EmpireWF]

Knicks are awesome. Lose for about 10 years...start to win with Jeremy Lin...get rid of Lin immediately...sign Jason Kidd. Sounds like the Chicago Cubs.

Let's not make it sound like Lin took them from shit to a division championship. They were something like 16-11 with him when he played at least 20 minutes.

After D'Antoni was fired, the Knicks went 18-6 (Lin was 5-1 in those games, 12-5 without him) under Woodson.

It sucks to lose an asset for nothing but it's still just a guy who started 25 games.

[FedEx227]

Knicks are awesome. Lose for about 10 years...start to win with Jeremy Lin...get rid of Lin immediately...sign Jason Kidd. Sounds like the Chicago Cubs.

They won because Lin embraced the D'Antoni system. He was the perfect PG for that system (despite a ton of turnovers which people tend to ignore/forget). He would not have been the same player under Woodson. More so, he was getting exposed in his last few games. The scouting report was out on him and teams were taking it personally that he was getting as much hype as was.

If anything the Knicks are actually being smart by not letting media pressure, hype and a 20 game sample size let them give big money to a guy who most likely won't ever reach that status again.

[FirstTimer]

They won because Lin embraced the D'Antoni system. He was the perfect PG for that system (despite a ton of turnovers which people tend to ignore/forget). He would not have been the same player under Woodson. More so, he was getting exposed in his last few games. The scouting report was out on him and teams were taking it personally that he was getting as much hype as was.

If anything the Knicks are actually being smart by not letting media pressure, hype and a 20 game sample size let them give big money to a guy who most likely won't ever reach that status again.

Lin's last 7 games under Woodson he was 13.2PPG,5.4 APG, 4 RPG, and 3.5 TOPG.

The turnovers are slightly skewed because of bookended 6 and 7 TO games in his first and last. I thought Lin was actually playing pretty well in his last stint before the knee injury. Less frantic and thought the team was responding well to Woodson and him. The turnover numbers were starting to slowly come down. I think had it not been for that poison pill final season the deal was worth matching. Also, it would have been the best thing for Lin from a career stand point getting to play from and learn from Kidd.

[Senser81]

If anything the Knicks are actually being smart by not letting media pressure, hype and a 20 game sample size let them give big money to a guy who most likely won't ever reach that status again.

I understand what you are saying, but the Knicks wouldn't be the first team to give big money to a guy who most likely won't ever measure up to his contract. I think Lin was worth the gamble.

Nearly all NBA salaries are terrible, especially the free agent signings.

[FedEx227]

Right, including paying Jeremy Lin that much money. It would have also resulted in a tax hit and he would've ended up costing them nearly double his contract with the fees. 100% not worth it for someone like Lin.

[FirstTimer]

I understand what you are saying, but the Knicks wouldn't be the first team to give big money to a guy who most likely won't ever measure up to his contract. I think Lin was worth the gamble.

Nearly all NBA salaries are terrible, especially the free agent signings.

So you're saying the Bulls should go into the luxury tax for Omer Asik?

[Senser81]

100% not worth it for someone like Lin.

Or...is it?

[EmpireWF]

Knicks did get butthurt over Houston changing their offer, so there's that, too.

[Fight'On]

I wonder how much we'll hear about him now after a month of the NBA goes by

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight

So far this week: MSG (Knicks) stock has underpeformed market by 3.3% on Lin news. Equivalent to $90m in lost market value.

[Kuzzy Powers]

In a statement he may ultimately wish he didn't say, Jeremy Lin told Sports Illustrated that he "preferred New York."
Lin's entire quote was, "Honestly, I preferred New York, but my main goal in free agency was to go to a team that had plans for me and wanted me. I wanted to have fun playing basketball. ... Now I'm definitely relieved." Hopefully this was just Lin being honest about his emotions and feelings and that he is now ready to commit to Houston. The article below has an interesting breakdown of Lin's roller coaster beginning with his injury from last year leading up to the Knicks decision not to re-sign him.

Poor choice of words..

[ryne candy]

 

Sidenote (didn't want to make a thread just for the video):

sure it's been posted

[IamMedellin]