I didn't give the years. That's 4 years @$5m, or 5 years @4m, aka Darko Milicic money. I believe he has/will prove himself a solid starter, and that's hardly overpaying for someone at this position.
I predict he won't get a contract worth over >20M/year. That's crazy talk.
I didn't give the years. That's 4 years @$5m, or 5 years @4m, aka Darko Milicic money. I believe he has/will prove himself a solid starter, and that's hardly overpaying for someone at this position.
A friend of mine is firmly in the camp that believes jeremy lin is a fraud. He wants melo back. I asked him if he wanted to watch the knicks lose again. He replies: "I've gotten used to it."
Oh. Generally when I talk contracts I'm looking at the per year price, cause saying $20M while leaving out the number of years tells us nothing.
If you meant in the 4 or 5 mil range, then I could see that happening. He would need to keep up his production, which will be interesting to see when Melo comes back (as I don't think Melo makes his teammates any better).
What are you even talking about? You don't see how saying "there's no chance, in my opinion" is a rather silly statement?
Whatever, I'm not gonna argue with someone lacking the proper tools to have a discussion. I really couldn't care less what kind of contract the guy gets. Not sure why you took offense when I questioned your "prediction"
The New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook today were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Feb. 6, through Sunday, Feb. 12.
Lin led the Knicks to a 4-0 week, averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 assists and 2.0 steals. His 109 points over his first four career starts are the most by any player since 1976-77, and he became the first player in NBA history to tally at least 20 points and seven assists in each of his first four starts. Lin scored a career-high 38 points on Feb. 10, in a 92-85 win over the Lakers.
Westbrook helped the Thunder to a 3-1 week, averaging 30.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.5 steals. Westbrook scored 28 or more points in all four of Oklahoma City’s games, and posted one double-double (28 points, 11 rebounds) on Feb. 6, in a 111-107 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. Westbrook connected on a career-high 15 field goals on Feb. 9, during a 106-101 loss to the Sacramento Kings.
"When I'm reading the stuff, it's more funny than anything because at the end of the day I know what I bring to the game, I know what I bring to this team," Anthony said on Monday after missing practice due to a strained right groin. "My teammates know that. But to say, 'How can I fit in?' It's easy; give him the ball and space out. I get back to doing what I know how to do best. So we'll see."
..."I know there's questions about, 'Can I fit in?' and stuff like that, but this is like a dream come true to me," Anthony said. "It takes some pressure off of me. I don't have to play point guard. I don't have to try to get Amare 20 points, try to get this guy 20 points, me try to go out there and get 25-30 points a night, play defense, rebound do the whole thing."
Lin and Anthony rank fourth and fifth, respectively, in usage rate -- a measurement of how many possessions a player uses per 40 minutes. So they will have to find a happy medium when it comes to handling the ball. Anthony said there will still be opportunities for him to run isolation plays but Lin will be the team's primary ball-handler.
"I don't think I want to take that away, I don't think coach wants to take that away," Anthony said. "But at the same time, I have to get away from the ball knowing that Jeremy is the guy with the basketball, and knowing that he can create for me, for Amare, for everybody else and make other guys better."
There's also another 29 teams in the league, and a 'thing' called free agency. Knicks will either make room for him, go over the cap...some more, or not sign him, but unless he falters big time the rest of the season, there's no chance he signs his next contract for <$20m imo. He and his agent are going to look for a long term deal from a team that really wants him (and shows it by paying for him.) The team has to appreciate his pick and roll skills, but that's not going to be hard to find.
I didn't give the years. That's 4 years @$5m, or 5 years @4m, aka Darko Milicic money. I believe he has/will prove himself a solid starter, and that's hardly overpaying for someone at this position.
Still not allowed...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap#Maximum_individual_contracts_under_the_CBA
I'm not saying on an open market people wouldn't pay that for him (he's good but not worth that much, but I don't want to get into that).
Jeremy Lin is all CLASS, while Whitlock on the other hand is all TRASH
How may white announcers and journalists have been fired for the same reason. They inadvertantly said the wrong thing about a black person, and tried to apologize. It did no good. Make and example of Whitlock so that all will understand that racism is not solely confined to the caucasian ethnicity. If they don't, they just continue to feed the fire
"Earlier this NBA season, with the New York Knicks in complete disarray and relationships rather friendly between Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, interim general manager Glen Grunwald, and Colangelo, there had been some serious talk about a deal for one of the Raptors’ point guards. No one will say who approached whom about what, but if you play the elimination game, it was probably the veteran Anthony Carter, who was supposed to be heading to New York.
The Knicks thought they needed somebody, anybody to help and Carter, with 12 seasons of work behind him, was an inexpensive and experienced answer.
The situation got so bad for the Knicks that D’Antoni was actually telling people around the league that he had no choice, he was running out of players, that he had to play Lin. Not that he wanted to.
Colangelo, who can’t talk about these kind of things, figured to himself that if he moved one of his point guards to open up a roster spot, there was the possibility he would add the tough kid, Lin, either by trade or waivers, depending on how the Knicks proceeded.
The deal was discussed but never happened.
Then the impossible and incredible occurred all at once: Lin got onto the Knicks floor and hasn’t gotten off since, becoming the accidental star in the process."
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/13/jeremy-lin-was-almost-a-raptor
Talk about The Perfect Storm:
- I read somewhere else that Lin was on verge of being cut so Knicks could bring up D-Leaguer Mike James, but Carmelo Anthony asked Coach D'Antoni to play Lin more during second half of Nets game
- and Raptors could have conceivably traded for Lin, too:
Talk about The Perfect Storm:
- I read somewhere else that Lin was on verge of being cut so Knicks could bring up D-Leaguer Mike James, but Carmelo Anthony asked Coach D'Antoni to play Lin more during second half of Nets game
- and Raptors could have conceivably traded for Lin, too:
Lins play might help Madison Square Garden shares by bringing an end to the programming-fee standoff between the company and Time Warner Cable Inc., according to David Joyce, an analyst at Miller Tabak & Co. in New York. Time Warner Cables 2.8 million MSG subscribers lost access to the channels on Jan. 1, with the two sides haggling over prices.
Shares keep going up because hes come on and is doing a great job, Joyce, who doesnt own MSG shares and gives them a neutral rating, said of Lin. That hope then translates into maybe this gets Time Warner Cable and MSG back to the negotiating table.
HD phantom camera in slow motion.
These are the best quality highlights I've seen so far of Lin vs. Bryant. 720p uploaded by the NBA, but without the macro blocking from the TV channels, and without all that extra stuff. It looks like they took 4k footage or whatever and cropped out a whole bunch to leave us with the super smooth 720p closeups.