Is "Linsanity" Over In New York? Knicks Not Expected To Match Houston Rockets Offer To Jeremy Lin

 

Via New York Post

 

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 millionoffer 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.

 

 

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Comment by 11Brooklyn718 on July 16, 2012 at 9:16pm
LIN is a f****** beast.. carmello came back and f***** his flow up real s***.. for the knicks 2 get rid of him is a dumbs move.. if it wasn't for carmello coming back lin probably would've got them many more wins before injury.
Comment by DJ Kells on July 16, 2012 at 8:06pm
LOL... NYCHICKS fail again
Comment by Drayton Jackson on July 16, 2012 at 2:22pm
The one thing that I think the New York Knicks don’t get about keeping Jeremy Lin is the fan factor. I moved from New York to Seattle and the settle mariners baseball team has a Japanese player called Ichiro and let me tell you this, the Japanese fans come out just to see this guy, and if you look at how china town was in NYC when Lin was playing, look at how the Japanese market brought time from MSG just to show the game in the Asia market. Will the Knicks make that money before Lins’ contract! Hell ya, but if they let him go who has the door draw on that team to sell out MSG? The rockets know how to deal with the Asian market because of Yao Ming, and they saw how much money and how they were selling tickets to the Asian market. James Dolan has to look into the future and see how to put butts in seats, with a face of the Knicks and hopefully the other big names players will understand that its bizznes!!!!!! Brooklyn Boy in Seattle
Comment by ike seales on July 16, 2012 at 2:38am
Feltons'back!!!
Comment by 1THUG aka UNDER BUDGET!! on July 15, 2012 at 11:47pm
soon as they hyped him up...real neggaz was waitin for him to come to they arena...and then they iced him!! he not a top 20 point guard...PERIOD!! cp3, wessbrick, rondo, steed nash, tony parker, mario charmer, jameer nelson, ty lawson, deron williams, dru holliday, jose calderon, brandon jennins, devin harris, ricky rubio, jason kidd, daren collison, george hill, kyrie irvin, john wall, jj barea...and others are ALL BETTA THAN LIN!!
negga cant defend for shet...iman shumpert busted his knee tha fugg out cos errytime he was on tha court wit lin he hadda guard two neggaz...his own man and lin man!! calderon scorched lin, daren williams EMBARASSED HIM...then all ah sudden he injured!!
negga caught lightnin in a bottle and now he gettin paid cos he is ASIAN and can ball good...NOT GREAT!! NOT VERY GOOD!! juss good!! fugg tha hype...he is a decent to good player...
Comment by 1THUG aka UNDER BUDGET!! on July 15, 2012 at 11:37pm
thazz tha worse photoshot EVER!! negga hand is on his hip BUT they got his THUMB IN FRUNNA HIS WAIST!! get on ya job photoshot neggaz!!
Comment by FRESH on July 15, 2012 at 4:58pm
Horrible photoshop lol
Comment by BuckDat on July 15, 2012 at 3:19pm
Knicks are idiots if they dont match it. Though Lin and the Rockets shoulda stuck with the original deal. But the Knicks people shouldnt let egos get in the way. He's brought them HUNDREDS of millions of dollars in revenue and will continue to if he stays. Even if he ends up playing like crap it's money in the bank. So imagine if he had another couple runs again. But yeah, It's obvious he knows how lucky he is, that's why he's trying to get what he can cause it could all end eventually. Even after all of this, I'd be honestly surprised if the Knicks did NOT try to sign this. If they agreed to the 28 in the first place...what's the difference in how much it escalates? It's chump change in the end.
Comment by YKham on July 15, 2012 at 1:58pm
Man he should be lucky he got a NBA contract period. He was in the D-League just last season. I guess one month of good play gets you 20 plus mill in these current times.
Comment by Dat n**** marley on July 15, 2012 at 1:51pm
He will pro ably be a all-star with a real team cause da Knicks is some azz anyway dey got melo and dats pretty much it and da nets will probably bust dey azz

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